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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 21
    spellings

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

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

The other 32 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

  • 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.

פָּרַשׂparasto spreadUses67
פָּרַרpararto breakUses50
פָּרַץparatsto break throughUses49
פָּרַחparachto sproutUses36
פָּרָהparahbe fruitfulUses29
פָּרַדparadto separateUses26
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 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.

    Genesis 32:15

    • פָּר֤וֹתparotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
  • when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.

    Genesis 41:2

    • 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.

    Genesis 41:3

    • 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,

    Genesis 41:4

    • 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.

    Genesis 41:18

    • 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!

    Genesis 41:19

    • פָּר֤וֹתparotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cows
  • Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.

    Genesis 41:20

    • 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.

    Genesis 41:26

    • 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.

    Genesis 41:27

    • 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.

    Numbers 19:2

    • 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.

    Numbers 19:5

    • 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.

    Numbers 19:6

    • 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.

    Numbers 19:9

    • 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.

    Numbers 19:10

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 6:7

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 6:10

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 6:12

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 6:14

    • 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.

    Job 21:10

    • 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.

    Isaiah 11:7

    • 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?

    Hosea 4:16

    • 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.”

    Amos 4:1

    • פָּר֤וֹתparotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O cows of

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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