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Hebrew verb · H6509

פָּרָה

parahpaw-raw'

be fruitful

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

Concordance spelling: pârâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6509is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 26
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6509

to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.

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

parah is rendered "be fruitful". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Fifteen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:22Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.

The first use

Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 1:22פְּר֣וּ

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

Where the word stands

Fifteen of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Genesis.

The other 31 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

  • be fruitful5
  • and I will make fruitful3
  • and they will be fruitful3
  • fruitful3
  • a fruit-bearer2
  • about to make fruitful you1
  • and he made fruitful1
  • and may he make fruitful you1
  • and they were fruitful1
  • and we will be fruitful1
  • and you will be fruitful1
  • bearing fruit1

and 6 more, 29 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.

פָּרַשׂparasto spreadUses67
פָּרַרpararto breakUses50
פָּרַץparatsto break throughUses49
פָּרַחparachto sproutUses36
פָּרַדparadto separateUses26
פָּרָהparahheiferUses26
פָּרַעparato leadUses16
פָּרַסparasto divideUses14
פָּרַקparaqto tearUses10
פָּרָשׁparashto declareUses5
פָּרַםparamto tearUses3
פָּרוּרparurpotUses3

and 4 more on the stem.

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 29, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

26 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

  • וּפָר֥וּ2
  • פְּר֣וּ2
  • פְּר֥וּ2
  • הִפְרַ֥נִי1
  • וְהִפְרֵיתִ֥י1
  • וְהִפְרֵיתִ֣י1
  • וְהִפְרֵתִ֤י1
  • וַיֶּ֣פֶר1
  • וַיִּפְר֥וּ1
  • וְיִפְרוּ־1
  • וְיַפְרְךָ֖1
  • וּפָר֑וּ1

and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular6HVqrfsa
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural4HVqv2mp
  • Hc/Vhq1cs3Hc/Vhq1cs
  • Hc/Vqq3cp3Hc/Vqq3cp
  • HC/Vhu3ms/Sp2ms1HC/Vhu3ms/Sp2ms
  • Hc/Vhw3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms
  • Hc/Vqq1cp1Hc/Vqq1cp
  • Hc/Vqq2mp1Hc/Vqq2mp
  • HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhp3ms/Sp1bs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhrmsc/Sp2ms

Genesis

fifteen uses
  • Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

    Genesis 1:22

    • פְּר֣וּperuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: be fruitful
  • God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

    Genesis 1:28

    • פְּר֥וּperuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: be fruitful
  • Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

    Genesis 8:17

    • וּפָר֥וּufaruHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will be fruitful
  • And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

    Genesis 9:1

    • פְּר֥וּperuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: be fruitful
  • But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

    Genesis 9:7

    • פְּר֣וּperuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: be fruitful
  • I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

    Genesis 17:6

    • וְהִפְרֵתִ֤יvehifretiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will make fruitful
  • As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

    Genesis 17:20

    • וְהִפְרֵיתִ֥יvehifreitiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will make fruitful
  • He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

    Genesis 26:22

    • וּפָרִ֥ינוּufarinuHc/Vqq1cptagged: and we will be fruitful
  • May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

    Genesis 28:3

    • וְיַפְרְךָ֖veyafrekhaHC/Vhu3ms/Sp2mstagged: and may he make fruitful you
  • And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

    Genesis 35:11

    • פְּרֵ֣הperehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: be fruitful
  • And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

    Genesis 41:52

    • הִפְרַ֥נִיhifraniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has made fruitful me
  • Now the Israelites settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and became fruitful and increased greatly in number.

    Genesis 47:27

    • וַיִּפְר֥וּvaiyifruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they were fruitful
  • and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’

    Genesis 48:4

    • מַפְרְךָ֙mafrekhaverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: about to make fruitful you
  • Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

    Genesis 49:22

    • פֹּרָת֙poratverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a fruit-bearer
    • פֹּרָ֖תporatverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a fruit-bearer

Exodus

two uses
  • but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.

    Exodus 1:7

    • פָּר֧וּparuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were fruitful
  • Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

    Exodus 23:30

    • תִּפְרֶ֔הtifrehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will be fruitful

Leviticus

one use
  • I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

    Leviticus 26:9

    • וְהִפְרֵיתִ֣יvehifreitiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will make fruitful

Deuteronomy

one use
  • Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

    Deuteronomy 29:18

    • פֹּרֶ֥הporehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: bearing fruit

Psalms

two uses
  • And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,

    Psalms 105:24

    • וַיֶּ֣פֶרvaiyeferHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he made fruitful
  • Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

    Psalms 128:3

    • פֹּרִיָּה֮poriyahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: fruitful

Isaiah

four uses
  • Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

    Isaiah 11:1

    • יִפְרֶֽה׃yifrehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will bear fruit
  • Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

    Isaiah 17:6

    • פֹּֽרִיָּ֔הporiyahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: fruit-bearing
  • Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

    Isaiah 32:12

    • פֹּרִיָּֽה׃poriyahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: fruitful
  • Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

    Isaiah 45:8

    • וְיִפְרוּ־veyifru-HC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may bear fruit

Jeremiah

two uses
  • “In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

    Jeremiah 3:16

    • וּפְרִיתֶ֨םuferitemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will be fruitful
  • Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.

    Jeremiah 23:3

    • וּפָר֥וּufaruHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will be fruitful

Ezekiel

two uses
  • Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.

    Ezekiel 19:10

    • פֹּֽרִיָּה֙poriyahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: fruitful
  • I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    Ezekiel 36:11

    • וּפָר֑וּufaruHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will be fruitful

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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