Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6510
פָּרָה
parahpaw-raw'
heifer
26 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 H6510is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6510
a heifer
The King James renders it: cow, heifer, kine.
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 "heifer". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 32:1530 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
Genesis 32:15פָּר֤וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the cows9
- cows8
- the heifer4
- a heifer1
- and cow1
- cow his1
- like a heifer1
- O cows of1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פָּרַשׂ | paras | to spread | Uses67 |
| פָּרַר | parar | to break | Uses50 |
| פָּרַץ | parats | to break through | Uses49 |
| פָּרַח | parach | to sprout | Uses36 |
| פָּרָה | parah | be fruitful | Uses29 |
| פָּרַד | parad | to separate | Uses26 |
| פָּרַע | para | to lead | Uses16 |
| פָּרַס | paras | to divide | Uses14 |
| פָּרַק | paraq | to tear | Uses10 |
| פָּרָשׁ | parash | to declare | Uses5 |
| פָּרַם | param | to tear | Uses3 |
| פָּרוּר | parur | pot | Uses3 |
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.
The words it stands beside
All 26, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 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
- פָּר֤וֹת3
- הַפָּר֔וֹת2
- פָרוֹת֙2
- פָּר֔וֹת2
- הַפָּרָ֖ה1
- הַפָּרָ֔ה1
- הַפָּרָה֙1
- הַפָּרָֽה׃1
- הַפָּר֖וֹת1
- הַפָּר֗וֹת1
- הַפָּר֛וֹת1
- הַ֠פָּרוֹת1
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural9HTd/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine plural8HNcfpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular4HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
twelve uses
30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
- פָּר֤וֹתparotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
- פָּר֔וֹתparotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
- פָּר֣וֹתparotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
- הַפָּר֖וֹתhaparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up,
- הַפָּר֗וֹתhaparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
- הַפָּר֔וֹתhaparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
- פָּר֔וֹתparotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
- פָּר֤וֹתparotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
- הַפָּר֔וֹתhaparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
- הַפָּר֛וֹתhaparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.
- פָּרֹ֣תparotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.
- הַ֠פָּרוֹתhaparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
Numbers
five uses
“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
- פָרָ֨הfarahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a heifer
Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
- הַפָּרָ֖הhaparahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the heifer
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
- הַפָּרָֽה׃haparahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the heifer
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
- הַפָּרָ֔הhaparahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the heifer
The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.
- הַפָּרָה֙haparahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the heifer
1 Samuel
five uses
Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
- פָרוֹת֙farotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
- הַפָּרוֹת֙haparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
- פָרוֹת֙farotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
- הַפָּר֜וֹתhaparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
- הַ֨פָּר֔וֹתhaparotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the cows
Job
one use
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
- פָּ֝רָת֗וֹparatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: cow his
Isaiah
one use
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
- וּפָרָ֤הufarahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and cow
Hosea
one use
For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
- כְּפָרָ֣הkefarahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: like a heifer
Amos
one use
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
- פָּר֤וֹתparotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O cows of
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.
