Strong's #6398: palach (pronounced paw-lakh')

a primitive root; to slice, i.e. break open or pierce:--bring forth, cleave, cut, shred, strike through.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pâlach

1) to cleave, slice

1a) (Qal) to cleave, plow

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to cleave open or through

1b2) to cause to cleave open

1b3) to slice, pierce

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

2 Kings 4:39: "his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for"
Job 16:13: "His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out"
Job 39:3: "They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows."
Psalms 141:7: "at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth."
Proverbs 7:23: "Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare,"