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title: פְּלֻגָּה — division · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פְּלֻגָּה (6391), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: division. BDB 1906: n.f. division. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פְּלֻגָּה

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«פְּלֻגָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **division** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6391 · **BDB:** פְּלֻגָּה

### Glosses

the.divisions (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

division [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6391/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. division [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6391/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. division (= מַחֲלֹקֶת q.v.), of priests, for service;—pl. cstr. פְּלֻגּוֹת 2 Ch 35:5.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פְּלֻגָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6391/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 35:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.5/)

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וְעִמְד֣וּ בַקֹּ֗דֶשׁ לִפְלֻגּוֹת֙ בֵּ֣ית הָֽאָב֔וֹת לַאֲחֵיכֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י הָעָ֑ם וַחֲלֻקַּ֥ת בֵּֽית־אָ֖ב לַלְוִיִּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and stand in the.holy place to the.divisions of.the.house of the.ancestors of countrymen your the.sons of the.people and a.division of.\[the\].house of.an.ancestor for the Levites

*JPS 1917:* And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brethren the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a father's house of the Levites.

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