Hebrew verb · H6561
פָּרַק
paraqpaw-rak'
to tear
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pâraq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6561is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6561
to break off or crunch; figuratively, to deliver
The King James renders it: break (off), deliver, redeem, rend (in pieces), tear in pieces.
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
paraq is rendered "to tear". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:40You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
Genesis 27:40וּפָרַקְתָּ֥
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's ten uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- tearing2
- and he rescued us1
- and they tore off from themselves1
- and you will tear off1
- he will tear off1
- rescues1
- tear off1
- tear off from yourselves1
- they were torn off1
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 |
| פָּרָשׁ | parash | horse | Uses57 |
| 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 |
| פָּרָה | parah | heifer | Uses26 |
| פָּרַע | para | to lead | Uses16 |
| פָּרַס | paras | to divide | Uses14 |
| פָּרָשׁ | parash | to declare | Uses5 |
| פָּרַם | param | to tear | Uses3 |
and 5 more on the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- הִתְפָּרְק֧וּ1
- הִתְפָּרָ֖קוּ1
- וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּ1
- וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙1
- וּפָרַקְתָּ֥1
- יְפָרֵֽק׃ ס1
- מְפָרֵק֩1
- פֹּ֝רֵ֗ק1
- פֹּרֵ֖ק1
- פָּֽרְקוּ֙1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
- Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bp1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bp
- Hc/Vtw3mp1Hc/Vtw3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVpv2mp
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVtp3cp
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVtv2mp
Genesis
one use
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
- וּפָרַקְתָּ֥ufaraktaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will tear off
Exodus
three uses
So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
- פָּֽרְקוּ֙parekuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: tear off
Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
- וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ֙vaiyitparekuHc/Vtw3mptagged: and they tore off from themselves
So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”
- הִתְפָּרָ֖קוּhitparakuverb · reflexive (hithpael), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: tear off from yourselves
1 Kings
one use
Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
- מְפָרֵק֩mefarekverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: tearing
Psalms
two uses
or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- פֹּ֝רֵ֗קporekverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: tearing
and freed us from our enemies. His loving devotion endures forever.
- וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּvaiyifrekenuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bptagged: and he rescued us
Lamentations
one use
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
- פֹּרֵ֖קporekverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: rescues
Ezekiel
one use
But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.
- הִתְפָּרְק֧וּhitparekuverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were torn off
Zechariah
one use
For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
- יְפָרֵֽק׃ סyefarekverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will tear off
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 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.