# H6398 פָּלַח

פָּלַח (pâlach), Strong’s H6398: to slice, i.e. break open or pierce KJV: bring forth, cleave, cut, shred, strike through.. Occurs 5 times.

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*pâlach* — to slice, i.e. break open or pierce

KJV: bring forth, cleave, cut, shred, strike through.

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [פָּלַח] vb. cleave
- Qal of cleaving, ploughing
- Pi.
- 1 cleave open, through
- 2 cause to cleave open

## Where it occurs
- [2 Kings 4:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/4?v=39) — One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and…
- [Psalms 141:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/141?v=7) — “As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
- [Proverbs 7:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/7?v=23) — Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
- [Job 16:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/16?v=13) — His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
- [Job 39:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/39?v=3) — They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.