פָּרָא
pârâʼ · H6500 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be fruitful, flourish or increase
Literally to sprout, the process by which people, animals or plants produce much offspring and so grow in number and strength
ExamplesHosea 13:15 Though he flourishes among the reeds, An east wind will come, The wind of the LORD coming up from the wilderness; And his fountain will become dry And his spring will dry up; It will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Stage002001001060
- פָּרָא means to be fruitful or to grow, describing a stage of increase and growth in Jacob's blessing of Joseph as a fruitful bough in Genesis 49:22.
- Quantity002001001046
- The word's sense of fruitfulness ties it to an abundant increase in quantity, the same picture of Joseph as a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall in Genesis 49:22.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6500. para I. פרא see Hiph`il Imperfect יַפְרִיא below פרה. II. פרא (√ of foll.;…
I. פרא see Hiph`il Imperfect יַפְרִיא below פרה.
II. פרא (√ of foll.; JenCosmol. 110 compare Talmud פרא run; Arabic , wild ass, HomNS 123; Assyrian parû, mule (wild ass is purîmu)).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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