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title: פַּלּוּא — Pallu · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פַּלּוּא (6396), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Pallu. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פַּלּוּא

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«פַּלּוּא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Pallu** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 6396 · **BDB:** פַּלּוּא

### Glosses

Pallu (4); of.Pallu (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Pallu [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6396/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6396/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (DHMEpigr. Denkm. 9, 1 cp. Liḥy. n.pr. פלה);—son of Reuben Gn 46:9; Ex 6:14 Nu 26:5, 8; 1 Ch 5:3, Φαλλου(ς), etc.; v. also פֶּלֶת.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פַּלּוּא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6396/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.8/)

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וּבְנֵ֥י פַלּ֖וּא אֱלִיאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Pallu \[were\].Eliab

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Pallu: Eliab.

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[Genesis 46:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.9/)

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וּבְנֵ֖י רְאוּבֵ֑ן חֲנ֥וֹךְ וּפַלּ֖וּא וְחֶצְר֥וֹן וְכַרְמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Reuben Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

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