פְּרַס
pᵉraç · H6537 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Thing
- Peres, ParsinWeights2 verses
Meanings
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to be divided
Process by which an area becomes divided into more than one part
ExamplesDaniel 5:28 “‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
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
- מַלְכוּkingdom, reign 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
- חָלַק châlaq · H2505 · to divide, to take (from), to select (from)
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to divide, apportion, distribute,' a standard synonym for division vocabulary. Both חָלַק and פְּרַס express the act of dividing or separating.
Contrasting words 1 word
- קָבַץ qâbats · H6908 · to come together, to gather, to assemble
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to gather, collect, assemble,' the lexical opposite of dividing—bringing together rather than separating.
In the other Testament 2 words
- μερίζω merízō · G3307 · to divide, to disunite, division
- Greek verb meaning 'to divide, separate, distribute,' the standard LXX and NT equivalent for Hebrew division vocabulary. Direct translation equivalent for the Aramaic פְּרַס 'divide.'
- διαιρέω diairéō · G1244 · to divide, to distribute, division
- Greek verb meaning 'to divide, distribute,' another common Greek translation for Hebrew/Aramaic division terms, semantically overlapping with פְּרַס.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Non-Whole002003001021
- Daniel 5:28 recounts that “'PERES'—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
- Weight002001001070
- Daniel 5:25 recounts that “this is the inscription that was written: 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.'”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6537. prac מְּרֵס (read מְּרָס ? M78* f.) probably noun [masculine] half-mina (Late…
מְּרֵס (read מְּרָס ? M78* f.) probably
noun [masculine] half-mina (Late Hebrew מְּרָס, Old Aramaic פרש פרס, Lzb354 SAC99 Cooke176, 406; see מְנֵא and references); — absolute ׳פ Dan 5:28; plural (וּ)פַרְסִין [read מְּרָסִין ? see Ml.c.] Dan 5:25.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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