Word

פָּרַס

pâraç · H6536 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences

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Meanings

to share

Causative action by which humans divide an object into portions, with the intention of giving one of these portions to someone else

Examples
Isaiah 58:7 “Is it not to break your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Jeremiah 16:7 “People will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.
to divide the hoof, to have a cleft hoof

State in which an animal has a cleft hoof, which is one of the conditions for it to be considered clean

Examples
Leviticus 11:3 ‘Whatever has a divided hoof, showing split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat.
Leviticus 11:4 ‘Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which have a divided hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:5 ‘Likewise, the rock hyrax, for though it chews cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.

How it’s used In 7 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

8 occurrences in 7 groups

Not stated: they 2
הוּאhe, she, it 1
פַּרְסָהhoof 1
נּוּhe 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

6 occurrences in 2 groups

פַּרְסָהhoof 5
לֶחֶםbread, food 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 4 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against+ אֵבֶלmourning 1
לto/for+ נָחַםto comfort, to relent, to be sorry 1
לto/for+ רָעֵבhungry 1
לto/for+ הֶםthem 1

With adverbsAdverbs

5 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 4
אַיִןthere is no, not 1

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 1 groups

פַּרְסָהhoof 5

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 2

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 1 entry

Non-Whole002003001021: פָּרַס means to divide or split into two parts, as of the dietary law's repeated test of whether an animal has a fully divided or split hoof in Leviticus 11:3 through 11:7.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פָּרַסpâraç · H6536פַּרְסָה parçâh · H6541 · hoof · 21×פְּרַס pᵉraç · H6537 · divide, pharsin · 3×פֶּרֶס pereç · H6538 · bearded vulture, lammergeier · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6536. paras [מָּרַס, erroneous מָּרַשׂ NöZA i, 417] verb break in two, divide (Late…

H6536. paras
[מָּרַס, erroneous מָּרַשׂ NöZA i, 417]
verb break in two, divide (Late Hebrew in derived forms; Assyrian parâsu, divide, hinder; Arabic break neck, etc.; Syriac hoof, מַּרְסְחָא ᵑ7 (see מַּרְסָה below); compare NöZA i.417 f.); —
Qal Perfect3plural וּפָֽרְשׂוּ Mic 3:3 they have broken up bones, as in kettle (? read Imperfect וַיִפְרְשׂוּ Nöi.c.); Infinitive abs. לַחְמֶ֑ךָ לָרָעֵב מָּרֹס Isa 58:7 a breaking for the hungry thy bread, so Imperfect3masculine plural לָהֶם יִפְרְסוּ Jer 16:7 (לֶחֶם omitted; but read ׳יִפ אֶלאָֿבֵל לֶחֶם Gie, compare [in part] ᵐ5 Valgate Gf); Participle לֶהֶם פֹרֵשׂ Lam 4:4 (accusative לֶחֶם omitted).
Hiph`il Perfect3feminine singular הִפְרִיסָה Lev 11:6, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יַפְרִיס Lev 11:5; Participle מַפְרִיס Lev 11:4 +, מַפְרֶסֶת Lev 11:3 +, etc.; —
1 with accusative מַּרְסָה divide hoof, i.e. have divided hoof (> denominative have hoofs, Deu 14:6-7, Deu 14:8 and || Lev 11:3-4, Lev 11:5, Lev 11:6, Lev 11:7, so also Lev 11:26; ׳הַפ מַפְרִיסֵי Deu 14:7 = הַפ ׳מַפְרִסֵי Lev 11:4 (H).
2 participle absolute denominative Psa 69:32 having hoofs (+ מַקְרִן).
[מְּרַס] verb break in two (see Biblical Hebrew פרס); —
Peîl (WCG224) Perfect3feminine singular מַלְכוּתָח מְּרִיסַת Dan 5:28.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Non-Whole14 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0