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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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
פֶּלֶגpeleg · peh'-leg
H6388 · Hebrew
H6388 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation)
- Derivation
- from H6385 (פָּלַג);
- KJV renderings
- river, stream.
- Grammar
- פַּלְגֵי — common noun, masculine, plural, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 10 times in the Hebrew Bible.Job 29:6Psalms 1:3Psalms 46:5Psalms 65:10Psalms 119:136
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read פֶּלֶג here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.