To wallow
פָּלַשׁStrong’s H6428palash (pa-lash)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Palash is the Hebrew word usually translated “roll”, “roll in ashes” and “roll yourself”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.”
Meaning
- To roll(Hithpael) to roll in ashes or dust (as an act of mourning)
How it's translated
- and roll 1
- and roll in ashes 1
- they will roll 1
- roll yourself 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Ezekiel 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 25:34Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
- Ezekiel 27:30And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
- Micah 1:10Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּלַשׁ palash · to wallow
1) to roll 1a) (Hithpael) to roll in ashes or dust (as an act of mourning)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wallow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WALLOW, verb intransitive
[Latin, G. This verb seems to be connected with well, walk, etc.]
- To roll ones body on the earth, in mire, or on other substance; to tumble and roll in water.
- To move heavily and clumsily.
- To live in filth or gross vice; as man wallowing in his native impurity.
All definitions and other forms of “wallow”
WALLOW, noun
A kind of rolling walk.
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.