BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3027
yad — hand
: hand/arm[anatomy] 1) hand 1a) hand (of man) 1b) strength, power (fig.) 1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.) 1d) (various special, technical senses) 1d1) sign, monument 1d2) part, fractional part, share 1d3) time, repetition 1d4) axle-trees, axle 1d5) stays, support (for laver) 1d6) tenons (in tabernacle) 1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure) 1d8) wrists
1345 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6396
pal.lu — Pallu
A man of the tribe of Reuben living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.9; son of: Reuben (H7205); brother of: Hanoch (H2585J), Hezron (H2696) and Carmi (H3756); father of: Eliab (H0446H) Also named: pal.lu.i (פַּלֻּאִי "Palluite" H6384) § Pallu or Phallu = "distinguished" the 2nd son of Reuben, father of Eliab, and progenitor of a family of Israel
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Separated, the second son of Reuben (Gen. 46:9).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
