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Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H6523

פַּרְזֶל

parzelpar-zel'

iron

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

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6523is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6523

iron

The King James renders it: iron.

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

parzel is rendered "iron". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Twenty of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:33its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.

Daniel 2:33פַרְזֶ֑ל

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

Where the word stands

Twenty of the word's twenty uses are in Daniel.

The other 38 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

  • iron8
  • iron the7
  • the iron3
  • and like the iron1
  • like the iron1

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.

פַּרְעֹהParohPharaohUses274
פַּרparbullockUses132
פַּרְסָהparsahhoofUses21
פַּרְשֶׁגֶןparshegencopyUses4
פַּרְדֵּסpardesparkUses3
פַּרְתַּםpartamnobleUses3
פַּרְשֶׁגֶןparshegencopyUses3
פַּרְעָהparahleaderUses2
פַּרְעֹשׁparoshfleaUses2
פַּרְסִיParsiPersianUses1
פַּרְסִיParsiPersianUses1
פַּרְצִיPartsiPereziteUses1

and 2 more on the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 20, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 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

  • פַרְזְלָ֖א3
  • פַרְזֶ֣ל2
  • וּֽכְפַרְזְלָ֛א1
  • כְּפַרְזְלָ֑א1
  • פַרְזֶ֑ל1
  • פַרְזֶ֔ל1
  • פַרְזֶ֥ל1
  • פַרְזֶל֙1
  • פַּרְזֶ֔ל1
  • פַּרְזֶ֖ל1
  • פַרְזְלָא֙1
  • פַרְזְלָ֔א1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)10ANcbsd/Ta
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular8ANcbsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AC/R/Ncbsd/Ta
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AR/Ncbsd/Ta

Daniel

twenty uses
  • its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.

    Daniel 2:33

    • פַרְזֶ֑לfarzelnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: iron
    • פַרְזֶ֔לfarzelnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: iron
  • As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

    Daniel 2:34

    • פַרְזְלָ֖אfarzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: iron the
  • Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

    Daniel 2:35

    • פַּרְזְלָא֩parzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: iron the
  • Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.

    Daniel 2:40

    • כְּפַרְזְלָ֑אkefarzela'preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: like the iron
    • פַרְזְלָא֙farzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: iron the
    • וּֽכְפַרְזְלָ֛אukhefarzela'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and like the iron
  • And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.

    Daniel 2:41

    • פַּרְזֶ֔לparzelnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: iron
    • פַרְזְלָ֖אfarzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: iron the
    • פַּ֨רְזְלָ֔אparzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: iron the
  • And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.

    Daniel 2:42

    • פַּרְזֶ֖לparzelnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: iron
  • As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.

    Daniel 2:43

    • פַּרְזְלָא֙parzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: iron the
    • פַרְזְלָ֔אfarzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the iron
  • And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

    Daniel 2:45

    • פַּרְזְלָ֨אparzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: iron the
  • But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.

    Daniel 4:15

    • פַרְזֶ֣לfarzelnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: iron
  • And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’

    Daniel 4:23

    • פַרְזֶ֣לfarzelnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: iron
  • As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

    Daniel 5:4

    • פַרְזְלָ֖אfarzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the iron
  • Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

    Daniel 5:23

    • פַרְזְלָ֜אfarzela'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the iron
  • After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.

    Daniel 7:7

    • פַרְזֶ֥לfarzelnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: iron
  • Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.

    Daniel 7:19

    • פַרְזֶל֙farzelnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: iron

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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