פָּרָה
pârâh · H6509 · Hebrew · 29 occurrences
Meanings
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The natural process of plants sprouting from soil, sending out branches from roots, or bearing agricultural yields
ExamplesIsaiah 11:1 Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
Isaiah 45:8 “Drip down, heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness sprout with it. I, the LORD, have created it.
Deuteronomy 29:18 so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
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to be fruitful, to flourish, to increase
Literally: to sprout; hence; process by which humans, animals, or plants produce much offspring, and so grow in number and strength
ExamplesGenesis 1:22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 17:6 “I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
23 occurrences in 12 groups
- Not stated: they 5
- Not stated: you (more than one) 4
- Not stated: I 3
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
9 occurrences in 8 groups
- ךָּyou 3
- יֶשַׁעsafety 1
- לַעֲנָהwormwood 1
- עַםpeople 1
- רֹאשׁhead 1
- נִיme 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- בin/on/with+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 3
- מִןfrom+ שֶׁרֶשׁroot 1
- בin/on/with+ יוֹםday, time 1
- בin/on/with+ מְאֹדvery 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְאֹדvery 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הּher 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- נוּב nûwb · H5107 · to produce, to increase
- נוּב (nûwb, H5107) (4×) is rarer and includes "make cheerful"; פָּרָה (pârâh, H6509) (29×) is the standard term for fertility and fruitfulness, with causative and growth extensions.
In the other Testament 1 word
- αὐξάνω auxánō · G837 · to increase, to grow, to spread
- αὐξάνω (auxánō, G837) primarily denotes the process of growing or increasing in size/quantity, serving as the Greek rendering for פָּרָה (pârâh, H6509)'s biological fruitfulness and multiplication sense, though פָּרָה (pârâh, H6509) more specifically emphasizes reproductive fertility and fruit-bearing where αὐξάνω (auxánō, G837) covers broader growth phenomena.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Stage002001001060
- פָּרָה means to be fruitful, to grow and bring forth, as of God's blessing on the creatures to be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the earth in Genesis 1:22 and 1:28, and his renewed blessing on Noah's family in Genesis 9:1 and 9:7.
- Quantity002001001046
- The word's fruitfulness ties directly to an increase in number, as the same blessing calls the creatures and Noah's family to be fruitful and multiply, breeding abundantly and filling the earth in Genesis 8:17, 9:1, and 9:7.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6509. parah [מָּרָה] verb bear fruit, be fruitful (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew 1,…
[מָּרָה] verb bear fruit, be fruitful (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew 1, מְּרִי = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician פר fruit; Ethiopic , blossom, bear fruit; Assyrian pir'u, posterity; compare also מֵּירָא ᵑ7 Syriac fruit, and BaZMG xii (1887), 604): —
Qal Perfect3plural מָּרוּ Exo 1:7; Exo 1:1plural consecutive וּפָרִינוּ Gen 26:22, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִפְרֶה Isa 11:1, etc.; Imperative masculine singular מְּרֵה Gen 35:11, masculine plural מְּרוּ Gen 1:22 +; Participle active מֹּרֶה Deu 29:17, feminine מֹּרִיָּה Eze 19:10; Isa 17:6, מֹּרָת (Ges§ 80g; for *מֹּרַיַת LagBN 81) Gen 49:22 (twice in verse); —
1 of men and animals, Exo 23:30 (E) Gen 26:22 (J); especially + רבה Jer 3:16; Jer 23:3; Eze 36:11; Gen 35:11; Gen 47:27 (P), and שָׁרַץ (P) Gen 8:17; Gen 9:7; Exo 1:7, וגו וּמִלְאוּ וּרְבוּ ׳מְּרוּ Gen 1:22, Gen 1:28; Gen 9:1.
2 of vine, מֹּרִיָּה גֶּפֶן Isa 32:12 fruitful vine, so Psa 128:3 (simile of wife); compare (in figurative of Israel) Eze 19:10; in Messianic prediction Isa 11:1 a shoot from his [Jesse's] roots shall bear fruit; with accusative פ ׳שֹׁרֶשׁ ראֹשׁ figurative, Deu 29:17 a root bearing gall (as its fruit); יֶשַׁע יִפְרוּ Isa 45:8 is dubious, read perhaps 3 feminine singular תֵּפֶר let earth be fruitful in salvation (Oort and others); Participle f., as substantive, הַמֹּרַיָּה the fruit-bearer, poetic for tree, Isa 17:6 (compare [סָעִיף]
2); so מֹּרָת בֵּן Gen 49:22 (twice in verse) Joseph is son of a fruit-bearer, i.e. a fruitful bough.
Hiph`il 1. cause to bear fruit,
2 make fruitful, subject ׳י with accusative of man or people:
1 Perfect3masculine singular suffix הִפְרַנִי Gen 41:52 (E).
2 in P, וְהִפְרֵתִ֫י Gen 17:6, Gen 17:20 (רֵיתֵ֫י-), + הִרְבָּה Lev 26:9 (H); Imperfect3masculine singular jussive וְיַרְבְּךָ יַפְרְךָ Gen 28:3, וַיֶּפֶר Psa 105:24; Participle וְהִרְבִּיתִךָ מַפְרְךָ הִנְנִי Gen 48:4.
3 shew fruitfullness, bear fruit (Ges§ 53 c, d, g): Imperfect3masculine singular יַפְרִיא Hos 13:15 (as if from פרא).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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