פָּרַק
pâraq · H6561 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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to break off, to tear off, to pull off, to strip off, to remove
Causative action by which humans, animals, or forces remove an object that is attached to another object, usually with some degree of violence
ExamplesGenesis 27:40 “And by your sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother; But it shall come about when you become restless, That you will break his yoke from your neck.”
Exodus 32:2 Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
1 Kings 19:11 So He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD was passing by! And a great and powerful wind was tearing out the mountains and breaking the rocks in pieces before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
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to remove
Action by which humans remove an object that is attached to their own body
ExamplesExodus 32:3 So all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.
Exodus 32:24 “So I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.’ Then they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”
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to rescue
Literally: to break off; hence: causative action by which humans or deities deliver (other) humans from the power of their enemies and bring them to safety
ExamplesPsalm 136:24 And has rescued us from our enemies, For His faithfulness is everlasting;
Lamentations 5:8 Slaves rule over us; There is no one to rescue us from their hand.
How it’s used In 4 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
9 occurrences in 7 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 2
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- מַטֶּהtribe, staff, rod 1
- עַםpeople 1
- רוּחַspirit, wind 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- נֶזֶםring 2
- הַרmountain 1
- עֹלyoke 1
- פַּרְסָהhoof 1
- נוּus 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom+ יָדhand, power 1
- מִןfrom+ צַרadversary, foe, distress 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 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 2 words
- נָתַק nâthaq · H5423 · to pull off, to tear off, to wrench off
- Both words denote violent separation or detachment with a “breaking” quality, in the sense of forceful detachment.
- נָתַר nâthar · H5425 · to give one's hand free play
- נָתַר and the target lexeme overlap in the sense of separating, detaching, or loosening, functioning as near-synonyms within that semantic space.
In the other Testament 1 word
- λυτρόω lytróō · G3084 · to set free, to liberate, to deliver
- Greek λυτρόω specifically denotes ransoming/redemption through payment, whereas Hebrew פָּרַק encompasses a broader semantic range including physical breaking/tearing actions alongside deliverance; the equivalence holds specifically in contexts where פָּרַק carries the 'deliver/redeem' sense rather than the 'break/tear' sense.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Detach002003001006
- פָּרַק means to tear off or break away, as when the Israelites tear off the gold rings from their ears to bring to Aaron in Exodus 32:2, 32:3, and 32:24.
- Non-Whole002003001021
- The word also describes breaking something into pieces, as of the great wind that tears the mountains apart and breaks the rocks in pieces before the LORD in 1 Kings 19:11.
- Safe002003003019
- The word also means to deliver or redeem, a facet of the word's range not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of tearing off or breaking apart.
- Non-Engage002003003012
- The word describes breaking free from a yoke of servitude, a ceasing of subjection, as of Esau's eventual freedom to break his brother's yoke from his neck in Genesis 27:40.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6561. paraq [מָּרַק] verb tear apart, away (Late Hebrew remove (load, etc.), Pi`el…
[מָּרַק] verb tear apart, away (Late Hebrew remove (load, etc.), Pi`el separate, take to pieces; Arabic split, divide;; מְּרַק ᵑ7 especially redeem, rescue; Syriac withdraw (intransitive), also remove, rescue; Ethiopic : set free); —
Qal Perfect2masculine singular וּפָרַקְדָמתּ֫ Gen 27:40; Imperfect3masculine singular suffix וַיִּפְרְקֵנזּ Psa 136:24; Participle active מֹּרֵק Lam 5:8; Psa 7:3 tear away yoke from pff (מֵעַל neck Gen 27:40 (J); snatck from (מִן) foes, = rescue (Aramaic) Lam 5:8; Psa 136:24; so absolute Psa 7:3 (prefixing ᵑ6 ᵑ7 (וְ)אֵין, Che Du We), > Hup Bae and others snatch away as prey.
Pi`el Imperfect3masculine singular יְפָרֵק Zec 11:16 he shall tear off their hoofs; Imperative masculine plural מָּֽרְקוּ Exo 32:2 (E) tear off the golden ear-tings; Participle מְפָרֵק 1Ki 19:11 a great wind rending mountains (|| מְשַׁבֵּר).
Hithpa`el tear off (for, i.e. from, oneself Ges§ 54f); Imperfect3masculine plural וַיִּתְמָּֽרְקוּ Exo 32:3 (E), with accusative הַזָּהָב אֶתנִֿזְמֵי; Imperative masculine plural הִתְמָּרָ֑קוּ Exo 32:24 (E; object omitted); passive be broken off, Perfect3plural הִתְמָּֽרְקוּ Eze 19:12 (branches).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
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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