פֶּרַע
peraʻ · H6545 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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locks
Loose hair on one's head
ExamplesNumbers 6:5 ‘All the days of his vow of consecration no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled which he lives as a Nazirite for the LORD; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long.
Ezekiel 44:20 “Also they shall not shave their heads, yet they shall not let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֵׂעָרhair 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גָּדַלto be great, to grow up, to magnify 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 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
- שֵׂעָר sêʻâr · H8181 · hair
- Hebrew שֵׂעָר is the general term for hair and overlaps semantically with פֶּרַע in contexts where locks or hair are in view, though שֵׂעָר is broader and not specific to the sense of unbound or flowing locks.
In the other Testament 2 words
- κόμη kómē · G2864 · hair
- Greek κόμη refers to long hair or locks, particularly the long flowing hair worn by both men and women. It is the standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew פֶּרַע when referring to unbound or flowing locks of hair.
- θρίξ thríx · G2359 · hair
- Greek θρίξ is the general term for hair and could serve as a translation equivalent for פֶּרַע in contexts referring to locks or hair more broadly, though it is less specific to the sense of flowing or unbound locks than κόμη.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- פֶּרַע denotes the locks of hair worn long, as of the Nazirite vow requiring the locks of one's head to grow long in Numbers 6:5, and the priests forbidden to let their locks grow long in Ezekiel 44:20.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6545. pera I. מֶּ֫רַע noun [masculine] leader (?); — plural absolute מְּרָעוֺת בִּפְרֹעַ…
I. מֶּ֫רַע noun [masculine] leader (?); — plural absolute מְּרָעוֺת בִּפְרֹעַ Jdg 5:2 for the leading of the leaders (ᵐ5A Be Bu and others, but uncertain; ᵐ5B Symm, compare WeIsrael u. Jüd. Geschichte. (2), 97; Held.(2). 123 and elsewhere, for the loosing of locks [II. מֶּרַע], in vow of war; on these and other views see especially GFMon the passage; conjectures also by LambertRÉJ xxiv. 140 GrimmeZMG 1(1896), 572 CheJQ July 1899, 561 [reading ברכו]); construct אוֺיֵב מַּרְעוֺת מֵראֹשׁ Deu 32:42 from the head of leaders of the foe ᵐ5 Di Steuern and others; Kn Ke Dr and others from the long-haired heads of the foe.
II. מֶּ֫רַע noun [masculine] long hair of head, locks; — ׳פ absolute Eze 44:20; construct ׳פ ראֹשׁוֺ שְׂעַר Num 6:5 (P). — Jdg 5:2; Deu 32:42, see I.מֶּרַע above
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
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
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