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Hebrew verb · H6504

פָּרַד

paradpaw-rad'

to separate

26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: pârad

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6504is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6504

to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself)

The King James renders it: disperse, divide, be out of joint, part, scatter (abroad), separate (self), sever self, stretch, sunder.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

parad is rendered "to separate". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:10Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

Genesis 2:10יִפָּרֵ֔ד

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-six uses are in Genesis.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • separate3
  • and they separated2
  • separating2
  • they separated2
  • and separated1
  • and they have become dislocated1
  • he is separated1
  • he separated1
  • it divided1
  • it separates1
  • it will separate1
  • separated1

and 9 more, 26 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

פָּרַץparatsto break throughUses49
פָּרַחparachto sproutUses36
פָּרָהparahbe fruitfulUses29
פָּרָהparahheiferUses26
פָּרַעparato leadUses16
פָּרַסparasto divideUses14
פָּרַקparaqto tearUses10
פָּרַםparamto tearUses3
פָּרוּרparurpotUses3
פָּרָאparabe fruitfulUses1
פָּרָזparazwarriorUses1
פָּרַטparatto divideUses1

and 1 more on the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 26, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ׃2
  • מַפְרִ֥יד2
  • בְּהַפְרִיד֖וֹ1
  • הִפָּ֥רֶד1
  • הִפָּֽרֶד־1
  • הִפְרִ֣יד1
  • וְהִתְפָּֽרְד֗וּ1
  • וַיִּפָּ֣רְד֔וּ1
  • וַיַּפְרִ֖דוּ1
  • וּמְפֹרָד֙1
  • יִפָּרֵ֔ד1
  • יִפָּרֵֽד׃1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVNp3cp
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVti3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhi3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular2HVhrmsa
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNi3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular2HVNrmsa
  • Hc/Vhw3mp1Hc/Vhw3mp
  • Hc/VNw3mp1Hc/VNw3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HC/VPsmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HC/Vtp3cp
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Vhcc/Sp3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhp3ms

Genesis

eight uses
  • Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

    Genesis 2:10

    • יִפָּרֵ֔דyiparedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it divided
  • From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

    Genesis 10:5

    • נִפְרְד֞וּnifreduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they separated
  • All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.

    Genesis 10:32

    • נִפְרְד֧וּnifreduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they separated
  • Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

    Genesis 13:9

    • הִפָּ֥רֶדhiparedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: separate
  • So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

    Genesis 13:11

    • וַיִּפָּ֣רְד֔וּvaiyipareduHc/VNw3mptagged: and they separated
  • After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

    Genesis 13:14

    • הִפָּֽרֶד־hipared-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: separated
  • and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

    Genesis 25:23

    • יִפָּרֵ֑דוּyipareduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will separate
  • Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

    Genesis 30:40

    • הִפְרִ֣ידhifridverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he separated

Deuteronomy

one use
  • When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

    Deuteronomy 32:8

    • בְּהַפְרִיד֖וֹbehafridopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when separated he

Judges

one use
  • Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

    Judges 4:11

    • נִפְרָ֣דnifradverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: separate

Ruth

one use
  • Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”

    Ruth 1:17

    • יַפְרִ֖ידyafridverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will separate

2 Samuel

one use
  • Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

    2 Samuel 1:23

    • נִפְרָ֑דוּnifraduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were separated

2 Kings

one use
  • As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.

    2 Kings 2:11

    • וַיַּפְרִ֖דוּvaiyafriduHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they separated

Nehemiah

one use
  • Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people: “The work is great and extensive, and we are spread out far from one another along the wall.

    Nehemiah 4:19

    • נִפְרָדִים֙nifradimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: separate

Esther

one use
  • Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

    Esther 3:8

    • וּמְפֹרָד֙umeforadconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and separated

Job

two uses
  • The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

    Job 4:11

    • יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ׃yitparaduverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are scattered
  • They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

    Job 41:17

    • יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ׃yitparaduverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are separated

Psalms

two uses
  • I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

    Psalms 22:14

    • וְהִתְפָּֽרְד֗וּvehitpareduconjunction (“and”) + verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they have become dislocated
  • For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

    Psalms 92:9

    • יִ֝תְפָּרְד֗וּyitpareduverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be scattered

Proverbs

five uses
  • A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

    Proverbs 16:28

    • מַפְרִ֥ידmafridverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: separating
  • Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.

    Proverbs 17:9

    • מַפְרִ֥ידmafridverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: separating
  • He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

    Proverbs 18:1

    • נִפְרָ֑דnifradverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: separates himself
  • Casting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.

    Proverbs 18:18

    • יַפְרִֽיד׃yafridverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it separates
  • Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

    Proverbs 19:4

    • יִפָּרֵֽד׃yiparedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is separated

Ezekiel

one use
  • Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

    Ezekiel 1:11

    • פְּרֻד֖וֹתperudotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: spread out

Hosea

one use
  • I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

    Hosea 4:14

    • יְפָרֵ֔דוּyefareduverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they go apart

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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