פֶּלֶךְpelek

a circuit (i.e. district); also a spindle (as whirled); hence, a crutch

Pronunciation: peh'-lek · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6418

Meanings

1. whirl of spindle.

2. district, (properly circle, circuit)

1. whirl of spindle (2 Samuel 3:29; Proverbs 31:19)

2. district (Nehemiah 3:9; Nehemiah 3:12; Nehemiah 3:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 3:29 Joab and his family are the guilty ones. May the family of Joab be cursed in every generation with a man who has open sores or leprosy or who walks on crutches or dies by the sword or begs for food!”
  • Nehemiah 3:9 Rephaiah son of Hur, the leader of half the district of Jerusalem, was next to them on the wall.
  • Nehemiah 3:12 Shallum son of Hallohesh and his daughters repaired the next section. He was the leader of the other half of the district of Jerusalem.
  • Nehemiah 3:14 The Dung Gate was repaired by Malkijah son of Recab, the leader of the Beth-hakkerem district. He rebuilt it, set up its doors, and installed its bolts and bars.
  • Nehemiah 3:15 The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallum son of Col-hozeh, the leader of the Mizpah district. He rebuilt it, roofed it, set up its doors, and installed its bolts and bars. Then he repaired the wall of the pool of Siloam near the king’s garden, and he rebuilt the wall as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.
  • Nehemiah 3:16 Next to him was Nehemiah son of Azbuk, the leader of half the district of Beth-zur. He rebuilt the wall from a place across from the tombs of David’s family as far as the water reservoir and the House of the Warriors.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).