Word

פַּרְעֹה

Parʻôh · H6547 · Hebrew · proper noun · 274 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Pharaoh

    King of Egypt

    Examples

    Genesis 12:15 Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

    Genesis 12:17 But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

    Genesis 12:18 Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

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

Named alongside itApposition

31 occurrences in 6 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

73 occurrences in 29 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 6 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

5 occurrences in 3 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 4 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

78 occurrences in 7 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

99 occurrences in 28 groups

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
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פַּרְעֹה denotes Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, the king before whom Joseph is brought and interprets dreams, and before whom Moses and Aaron repeatedly plead for Israel's release.
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The word also functions as the royal title itself, the office of the king of Egypt, applied across many centuries to different rulers throughout the Genesis and Exodus narratives.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6547. Paroh מַּרְעה275 noun masculine Pharaoh, Φαραω, title of Egyptain kings (Egyptian…
H6547. Paroh
מַּרְעה275 noun masculine Pharaoh, Φαραω, title of Egyptain kings (Egyptian pr-±o, great house, of royal court, and (in new kingdom) of king GriffithHastings DB MeyGeschichte. Alt. i. 59 SteindBAS. i. 343; in Assyrian pir°u according to most, compare COTGlossary Steindl.c., but see WklMVAG. 1898. 3f.); — ׳פ Gen 12:15 (3 t. in verse); Gen 12:17 212t. Hexateuch 19 t. Kings, Isa 19:11 (twice in verse) + 3t., Jer 25:19 Jer 25:10t., Eze 17:17 Eze 17:12t., Neh 9:10; 1Ch 4:18; 2Ch 8:11; Psa 135:9; Psa 136:15; Son 1:9; + מִצְרַיִם מֶלֶךְ (not early) Jer 25:19; Jer 46:17; Deu 7:8; Deu 11:3; Eze 29:2-3, Eze 30:21-22, Eze 31:2; 1Ki 3:1; 1Ki 9:16; 1Ki 11:18; 2Ki 17:7; 2Ki 18:21 = Isa 36:6; Gen 41:46 (E), Exo 6:11, Exo 6:13, Exo 6:27, Exo 6:29; Exo 14:8 (all P); with proper name ׳פ חָפְרַע Jer 44:30, ׳פ נְכֹה Jer 46:2; 2Ki 23:29, 2Ki 23:33, 2Ki 23:34, 2Ki 23:35.

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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