פִּלְחָא
Pileha
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Pileha’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6401 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah 1 verse
About this entry
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פלחא — transliterated Pilchâʼ — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Pileha.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Nehemiah. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Nehemiah 10:24. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6401 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Pileha 1×
- American Standard Version: Pilha 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pilha 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pilha 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6401 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6401 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6401 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6401 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Pileha = "slicing"
- a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
Word origin
(Baer פִּלְחָה) n.pr.m. post-exilic name Ne 10:25; Φαδαεις, 𝔊L Φαλλαει.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פלח (pelach) (H6400) — mill stone.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פִּלְחָא
- 1. millstone. Targ. Job XLI, 16.—Y. M. Kat. I, 80ᵈ bot. אית לן פ׳ דמועדא have we a special millstone for the festive week (dare we grind during the festive week)?
- 2. slice, portion. Y. Taan. I, 64ᶜ top דלא הוה גביי אלא פִלְחִי וכ׳ I had with me only my own portion (luncheon); why should I have spoken to you (invited you to eat) with insincerity? Lev. R. s. 12 (vers. in Ar.) אם שתי פִּלְחֵיה חמר when he drinks his regular portion of wine; יתר מן פלחיה more than his wonted quantity.
פָּלְחָא
- (preced. wds.) worker; servant; worshipper.—Pl. פָּלְחִין, פָּלְחִי, פּ׳. Targ. Is. XIX, 9. Targ. Ps. XLIX, 15 פ׳ אוריתא workers (students) of the Law (Ms. פלחן בהון).—Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᶜ top, v. פְּלַח.
פָּלְחָא ²
- (v. פְּלַחIthpa.) breaking through, birth.—Pl. constr. פָּלְחֵי, פַּ׳; קדמוי פ׳ וולדא first-born. Targ. Y. II, Ex. XXXIV, 19.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Pileha). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(worship), the name of one of the chief of the people, probably a family, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:24) (B.C. 410.)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
