Word

פְּרָת

Pᵉrâth · H6578 · Hebrew · proper noun · 19 occurrences

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Place

Euphratesfirst named in Genesis 15:1831 verses

Meanings

Euphrates

A river running through Mesopotamia, one of the four rivers flowing from the garden of Eden

Examples
Genesis 2:14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
Deuteronomy 1:7 ‘Turn and set out on your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Negev, by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָהָרriver 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּאhe, she, it 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against 2
בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

12 occurrences in 2 groups

נָהָרriver 11
תָּוֶךְmiddle 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Waterbodies003001015: פְּרָת names the Euphrates, the great river marking Israel's promised eastern border, as of the fourth river flowing out of Eden in Genesis 2:14, the boundary of the land promised to Abram's descendants in Genesis 15:18, and the border repeated in Deuteronomy 1:7, 11:24, and Joshua 1:4.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6578. Perath מְּרָת proper name, masculine, of a river Eupharates, Ευφρατης (Assyrian…

H6578. Perath
מְּרָת proper name, masculine, of a river Eupharates, Ευφρατης (Assyrian Purattu DlPa.169 ff., Whence Old Persian, Ufrâtu, SpiegAPK 211); — the greatest river of West Asia; ׳פ Gen 2:14. פ ׳נְהַר Gen 15:18; (both secondary phrases in J), פ ׳נְהַר also 2Sa 8:3 (Qr, see נָהָר), Jer 46:2, Jer 46:6, Jer 46:10; Deu 1:7; Deu 11:24; Jos 1:4 (D), 2Ki 23:29; 2Ki 24:7; 1Ch 5:9; 1Ch 18:3; נהר omitted Jer 13:4-5, Jer 13:6, Jer 13:7 (where Ew Hi Marti, after SchickZPV iii. ll, think of some other מְּרָת, but Gf Gie and most defend Euphrates) Jer 51:63; 2Ch 35:20 (compare Gen 2:14 above); name not certainly attested before D Jeremiah; on earlier הַנָּהָר for this river see ׳נ.
מֹּרָת Gen 42:22 see [ מָּרָה].

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Waterbodies19 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