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Pilled

(Genesis 30:37,38) “peeled,” Isai 18:2; Ezek 29:28 The verb “to pill” appears in old English as identical in meaning with “to peel, to strip.”

In the Bible

8

Verses where Pilled is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 2 Samuel 18:17

    They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.

  • Exodus 8:14

    They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

  • Exodus 15:8

    At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

  • Genesis 30:37

    Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

  • Genesis 30:38

    Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

  • Judges 9:49

    So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.

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Pilled references

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Sources · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)

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