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פְּלַגָּהStrong’s H6390

pelaggah (pe-lag-gah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Pelaggah is the Hebrew word usually translated “on streams”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.”
Job 20:17 KJV
Meaning
  1. Stream, division, riverstream · divisions, sections
How it's translated
  • on streams 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    פְּלַגָּה pelaggah · stream

    1) stream, division, river 1a) stream 1b) divisions, sections

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “stream” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    STREAM, noun

    1. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid substance flowing in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river or brook, or from a vessel or other reservoir or fountain.
    2. A river, brook or rivulet.
    3. A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream
    4. A current of melted metal or other substance; as a stream of lead or iron flowing from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
    All definitions and other forms of “stream”
    1. Any thing issuing from a source and moving with a continued succession of parts; as a stream of words; a stream of sand.
    2. A continued current of course; as a stream of weather. [Not used.]
    3. A current of air or gas, or of light.
    4. Current; drift; as of opinions or manners.
    5. Water.

    STREAM, verb intransitive

    1. To flow; to move or run in a continuous current.
    2. To emit; to pour out in abundance.
    3. To issue with continuance, not by fits.
    4. To issue or shoot in streaks; as light streaming from the east.
    5. To extend; to stretch in a long line; as a flag streaming in the wind.

    STREAM, verb transitive

    To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.