Millstone
פֶּ֫לַחStrong’s H6400pelach (pe-lach)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pelach is the Hebrew word usually translated “like slice of”, “mill-stone of” and “slice of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.”
Meaning
- Cleavage, mill-stone, cut, slice, part cut offmill-stone · cleavage, slice
How it's translated
- like slice of 2
- a mill-stone of 1
- a slice of 1
- a mill-stone 1
- like a mill-stone 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 2
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 30:12And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
- 2 Samuel 11:21Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- Job 41:24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
- Song of Solomon 4:3Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
- Song of Solomon 6:7As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫לַח pelach · millstone
1) cleavage, mill-stone, cut, slice, part cut off 1a) mill-stone 1b) cleavage, slice
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “millstone” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MILL'STONE, noun
A stone used for grinding grain.
All definitions and other forms of “millstone”
MILL'-TOOTH, noun
plural mill-teeth. A grinder, dens molaris.
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.