פֶּלֶג peleg

Hebrew word for “stream” · Strong’s H6388 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

channel, canal

How it is translated

Glosses given for peleg in context, with how often each is used:

• streams 8
• stream 1
• like streams 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Job 29 (1), Psalms 1 (1), Psalms 46 (1), Psalms 65 (1), Psalms 119 (1), Proverbs 5 (1), Proverbs 21 (1), Isaiah 30 (1), Isaiah 32 (1), Lamentations 3 (1)

Forms

• פלגי 6
• פלגיו 1
• פלג 1
• פלגים 1
• כפלגי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with peleg more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַי mayim “water” 8
• יָרַד yarad “to go down” 2
• רַב rav “many” 2
• עַיִן ayin “eye” 2

Key verses

The verses using peleg that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Job 29:6 — When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
• Psalms 1:3 — And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he…
• Psalms 46:4 — There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
• Psalms 65:9 — Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so…
• Psalms 119:136 — Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. צ TZADDI.
• Proverbs 5:16 — Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
• Proverbs 21:1 — The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
• Isaiah 30:25 — And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
• Isaiah 32:2 — And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary…
• Lamentations 3:48 — Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.