H6388 - פֶּלֶג (peleg)

H6388 פֶּלֶג (peleg) peh'-leg

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

stream

Strong's Definition

a rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation)

Derivation: from H6385 (פָּלַג);

KJV Usage: river, stream.

TWOT Reference: 1769a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) channel, canal

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G859 G1279 G1327 G3730 G3731 G4215

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

channel, canal

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּלֶג peleg BDB Definition: 1) channel, canal Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6385 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1769a Total KJV Occurrences: 10

Bible Occurrences (10)

29:6

1:3 46:4 65:9 119:136

5:16 21:1

30:25 32:2

3:48

Job 29:6

when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

Proverbs 5:16

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a waterway... in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where... He pleases.

Isaiah 30:25

And from every high... mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 32:2

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

Lamentations 3:48

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.