Hebrew · H6555 · unreviewed

פָּרַץ

To break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)

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פָּרַץ H6555

Pronunciation pāraṣ

What does פָּרַץ (pāraṣ) mean in the Bible?

פָּרַץ (pāraṣ) is a Hebrew word meaning "to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)". to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative) BDB: break through Usage: × abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in, up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, scatter, urge.

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Meaning

to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)

Extended definition

Explosive outward movement—breaking through barriers, expanding forcefully, applied to flood waters, military breaches, and God's blessing overflow.

to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative) BDB: break through Usage: × abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in, up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, scatter, urge.

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon + Brown-Driver-Briggs

Grammatical Forms

How the stem changes the meaning of this verb across the biblical text.

Qal basic active stem — the word in its most common, direct sense 25×

Perfect 1Chr 13:11 · 1Chr 14:11 · 1Chr 15:13 · 2Chr 20:37 · 2Sam 5:20 · 2Sam 6:8 · Job 1:10 · Job 28:4 · 1Chr 4:38 · 2Chr 24:7 · Hos 4:2 · Mic 2:13 · Gen 38:29 · Ps 80:13 · Ps 89:41 15×

Imperfect Exod 1:12 · Exod 19:22 · Exod 19:24 · Hos 4:10 · Prov 3:10 · Isa 54:3 6×

Participle passive Neh 2:13 · Prov 25:28 2×

Cohortative 1Chr 13:2 1×

Infinitive absolute Isa 5:5 1×

Niphal passive or reflexive — the subject receives or experiences the action 1×

Participle active 1Sam 3:1 1×

Pual intensive passive — intensive action received by the subject 1×

Participle passive Neh 1:3 1×

Biblical Occurrences

Each occurrence shows the passage reference, the original language term as it appears in that context, its transliteration, and the contextual sense.

Biblical Witnesses

Genesis 30:25-43 increase pāraṣ

to break out or increase rapidly, multiplication of livestock spreading forth

Proverbs 25:28 broken down pāraṣ Qal · Participle passive

to break through or breach, as a city wall without defense breached by enemy

Showing 8 of 50 occurrences in the biblical text.

Sources

MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0

Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0

STEPBible Data — CC BY 4.0

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