פָּלַח pâlach

Meaning

to slice, i.e. break open or pierce

In the King James Version: bring forth, cleave, cut, shred, strike through.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• 2 Kings 4:39 One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
• Job 16:13 His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
• Job 39:3 They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
• Psalms 141:7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
• Proverbs 7:23 until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.