פָּלַח pâlach — to slice, i.e. break open or pierce
Translated in the KJV as bring forth, cleave, cut, shred, strike through.
a primitive root; to slice, i.e. break open or pierce.
pâlach in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Wayyiqtol 1
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 1
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›