palah (be distinguished)

Meaning

To be distinct, marked out, be separated, be distinguished(Niphal) · (Hiphil) to make separate, set apart

How it's translated

and i will separate 1
and he will separate 1
he separates 1
and we will be distinguished 1
he has set apart 1
make wonderful 1
i am wonderful 1

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

Where it's used most

Exodus 4
Psalms 3

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Exodus 9:4And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.
Exodus 11:7But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exodus 33:16For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
Psalms 4:3But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
Psalms 17:7Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
Psalms 139:14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Hebrew dictionary

פָּלָה palah · be distinguished

1) to be distinct, marked out, be separated, be distinguished 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be distinct, be separated, be distinguished 1a2) to be wonderful 1b) (Hiphil) to make separate, set apart

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SEP'ARATE, verb transitive

[Latin separo.]

To disunite; to divide; to sever; to part, in almost any manner, either things naturally or casually joined.
To set apart from a number for a particular service.“Separate me Barnabas and Saul” Acts 13:2
To dilconnect; as, to separate man and wife by divorce.
To make space between.“Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me” Genesis 13:9

All definitions and other forms of “separate”

SEP'ARATE, verb intransitive

To part; to be disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from each other.
To cleave; to open; as, the parts of a substance separate by drying or freezing.

SEP'ARATE, adjective

[Latin separatus.]

Divided from the rest; being parted from another; disjoined; disconnected; used of things that have been united or connected.
Unconnected; not united; distinct; used of things that have not been connected.“Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners” Hebrews 7:26
Disunited from the body; as a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

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