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Hebrew verb · H6566

פָּרַשׂ

paraspaw-ras'

to spread

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

Concordance spelling: pâras

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6566is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 22 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 52
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6566

to break apart, disperse, etc.

The King James renders it: break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).

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

paras is rendered "to spread". It stands 67 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-two books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 9:29Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
  • The Greek text spells it fifty-two different ways.

The first use

Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.

Exodus 9:29אֶפְרֹ֥שׂ

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

  • and he spread out7
  • and they will spread out5
  • spreading out5
  • and he will spread out3
  • and I will spread3
  • and they spread out3
  • he spreads out3
  • spread out3
  • and he spread out it2
  • and I spread out2
  • and you will spread out2
  • he spread out2

and 26 more, 67 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.

פָּרָשׁparashhorseUses57
פָּרַרpararto breakUses50
פָּרַץparatsto break throughUses49
פָּרַחparachto sproutUses36
פָּרָהparahbe fruitfulUses29
פָּרָהparahheiferUses26
פָּרַעparato leadUses16
פָּרַסparasto divideUses14
פָּרַקparaqto tearUses10
פָּרָשׁparashto declareUses5
פָּרַםparamto tearUses3
פָּרוּרparurpotUses3

and 4 more on the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 67, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

52 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

  • וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂ4
  • וּפָרַ֥שׂ3
  • וּפָרְשׂ֣וּ3
  • וּפָרַשְׂתִּ֤י3
  • וַיִּפְרֹ֤שׂ2
  • וַיִּפְרְשֵׂ֥הוּ2
  • פָּרַ֣שׂ2
  • פָּ֣רְשׂוּ2
  • פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י2
  • פֹּרְשִׂ֣ים2
  • אֶפְר֤וֹשׂ1
  • אֶפְרֹ֥שׂ1

and 40 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms7Hc/Vqw3ms
  • Hc/Vqq3cp5Hc/Vqq3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVqp3ms
  • Hc/Vqq1cs3Hc/Vqq1cs
  • Hc/Vqq3ms3Hc/Vqq3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp3Hc/Vqw3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVpp1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural3HVqrmpa
  • Hc/Vqq2ms2Hc/Vqq2ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3ms2Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqi1cs

Exodus

five uses
  • Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.

    Exodus 9:29

    • אֶפְרֹ֥שׂʾefrosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will spread out
  • Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

    Exodus 9:33

    • וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂvaiyifrosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spread out
  • And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

    Exodus 25:20

    • פֹּרְשֵׂ֨יporeseiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: spreading out
  • And the cherubim had wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

    Exodus 37:9

    • פֹּרְשֵׂ֨יporeseiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: spreading out
  • Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.

    Exodus 40:19

    • וַיִּפְרֹ֤שׂvaiyifrosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spread out

Numbers

six uses
  • They are to place over this a covering of fine leather, spread a solid blue cloth over it, and insert its poles.

    Numbers 4:6

    • וּפָרְשׂ֧וּufaresuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will spread out
  • Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it, along with the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to remain on it.

    Numbers 4:7

    • יִפְרְשׂוּ֮yifresuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will spread out
  • And they shall spread a scarlet cloth over them, cover them with fine leather, and insert the poles.

    Numbers 4:8

    • וּפָרְשׂ֣וּufaresuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will spread out
  • Over the gold altar they are to spread a blue cloth, cover it with fine leather, and insert the poles.

    Numbers 4:11

    • יִפְרְשׂוּ֙yifresuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will spread out
  • Then they shall remove the ashes from the bronze altar, spread a purple cloth over it,

    Numbers 4:13

    • וּפָרְשׂ֣וּufaresuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will spread out
  • and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.

    Numbers 4:14

    • וּפָרְשׂ֣וּufaresuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will spread out

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.

    Deuteronomy 22:17

    • וּפָֽרְשׂוּ֙ufaresuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will spread out
  • As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

    Deuteronomy 32:11

    • יִפְרֹ֤שׂyifrosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it spreads out

Judges

one use
  • “We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

    Judges 8:25

    • וַֽיִּפְרְשׂוּ֙vaiyifresuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they spread out

Ruth

one use
  • “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.”

    Ruth 3:9

    • וּפָרַשְׂתָּ֤ufarastaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will spread out

2 Samuel

one use
  • Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

    2 Samuel 17:19

    • וַתִּפְרֹ֤שׂvatifrosHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she spread out

1 Kings

five uses
  • And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.

    1 Kings 6:27

    • וַֽיִּפְרְשׂוּ֮vaiyifresuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they spread out
  • For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

    1 Kings 8:7

    • פֹּרְשִׂ֣יםporesimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: spreading out
  • Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

    1 Kings 8:22

    • וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂvaiyifrosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spread out
  • then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

    1 Kings 8:38

    • וּפָרַ֥שׂufarasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will spread out
  • Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.

    1 Kings 8:54

    • פְּרֻשׂ֥וֹתperusotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: spread out

2 Kings

two uses
  • But the next day Hazael took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over the king’s face. So Ben-hadad died, and Hazael reigned in his place.

    2 Kings 8:15

    • וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂvaiyifrosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spread out
  • So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

    2 Kings 19:14

    • וַיִּפְרְשֵׂ֥הוּvaiyifresehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he spread out it

1 Chronicles

one use
  • the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense; and the plans for the chariot of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

    1 Chronicles 28:18

    • לְפֹ֣רְשִׂ֔יםleforesimpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: for spreading out

2 Chronicles

five uses
  • So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.

    2 Chronicles 3:13

    • פֹּֽרְשִׂ֖יםporesimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: spreading out
  • For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

    2 Chronicles 5:8

    • פֹּרְשִׂ֣יםporesimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: spreading out
  • Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

    2 Chronicles 6:12

    • וַיִּפְרֹ֖שׂvaiyifrosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spread out
  • Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

    2 Chronicles 6:13

    • וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂvaiyifrosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spread out
  • then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

    2 Chronicles 6:29

    • וּפָרַ֥שׂufarasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will spread out

Ezra

one use
  • At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

    Ezra 9:5

    • וָאֶפְרְשָׂ֥הvaefresahHc/Vqw1cs/Shtagged: and I spread out

Job

three uses
  • As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

    Job 11:13

    • וּפָרַשְׂתָּ֖ufarastaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will spread out
  • See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

    Job 36:30

    • פָּרַ֣שׂparasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spreads out
  • Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

    Job 39:26

    • יִפְרֹ֖שׂyifrosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does it spread out

Psalms

five uses
  • If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

    Psalms 44:20

    • וַנִּפְרֹ֥שׂvanifrosHc/Vqw1cptagged: and we had spread out
  • When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon.

    Psalms 68:14

    • בְּפָ֘רֵ֤שׂbefarespreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when scatters
  • He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

    Psalms 105:39

    • פָּרַ֣שׂparasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spread out
  • The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

    Psalms 140:5

    • פָּ֣רְשׂוּparesuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have spread
  • I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

    Psalms 143:6

    • פֵּרַ֣שְׂתִּיperastiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have spread out

Proverbs

three uses
  • Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

    Proverbs 13:16

    • יִפְרֹ֥שׂyifrosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spreads out
  • A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

    Proverbs 29:5

    • פּוֹרֵ֥שׂporesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: spreading
  • She opens her arms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

    Proverbs 31:20

    • פָּרְשָׂ֣הparesahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she spreads out

Isaiah

seven uses
  • When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

    Isaiah 1:15

    • וּבְפָרִשְׂכֶ֣םuvefariskhemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and when spread out you
  • Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

    Isaiah 19:8

    • וּפֹרְשֵׂ֥יuforeseiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and spread out
  • He will spread out his hands within it, as a swimmer spreads his arms to swim. His pride will be brought low, despite the skill of his hands.

    Isaiah 25:11

    • וּפֵרַ֤שׂuferasHc/Vpq3mstagged: and it will spread out
    • יְפָרֵ֥שׂyefaresverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spreads out
  • Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

    Isaiah 33:23

    • פָּ֣רְשׂוּparesuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have spread out
  • So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

    Isaiah 37:14

    • וַיִּפְרְשֵׂ֥הוּvaiyifresehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he spread out it
  • All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,

    Isaiah 65:2

    • פֵּרַ֧שְׂתִּיperastiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I spread out

Jeremiah

three uses
  • For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

    Jeremiah 4:31

    • תְּפָרֵ֣שׂtefaresverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she is spreading out
  • For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.

    Jeremiah 48:40

    • וּפָרַ֥שׂufarasHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will spread out
  • Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

    Jeremiah 49:22

    • וְיִפְרֹ֥שׂveyifrosHC/Vqu3mstagged: so he may spread out

Lamentations

four uses
  • The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

    Lamentations 1:10

    • פָּ֣רַשׂparasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has spread out
  • He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

    Lamentations 1:13

    • פָּרַ֨שׂparasverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spread out
  • Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

    Lamentations 1:17

    • פֵּֽרְשָׂ֨הperesahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has spread out
  • The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

    Lamentations 4:4

    • פֹּרֵ֖שׂporesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: breaks

Ezekiel

seven uses
  • which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

    Ezekiel 2:10

    • וַיִּפְרֹ֤שׂvaiyifrosHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he spread out
  • But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

    Ezekiel 12:13

    • וּפָרַשְׂתִּ֤יufarastiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will spread
  • Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 16:8

    • וָאֶפְרֹ֤שׂvaefrosHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I spread out
  • I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.

    Ezekiel 17:20

    • וּפָרַשְׂתִּ֤יufarastiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will spread
  • All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.’

    Ezekiel 17:21

    • יִפָּרֵ֑שׂוּyiparesuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be scattered
  • Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.

    Ezekiel 19:8

    • וַֽיִּפְרְשׂ֥וּvaiyifresuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they spread out
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.

    Ezekiel 32:3

    • וּפָרַשְׂתִּ֤יufarastiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will spread

Hosea

two uses
  • “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

    Hosea 5:1

    • פְּרוּשָׂ֥הperusahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: spread out
  • As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.

    Hosea 7:12

    • אֶפְר֤וֹשׂʾefrosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will spread

Joel

one use
  • a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

    Joel 2:2

    • פָּרֻ֣שׂparusverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: spread out

Micah

one use
  • You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

    Micah 3:3

    • וּפָרְשׂוּ֙ufaresuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they have chopped up

Zechariah

one use
  • “Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.

    Zechariah 2:6

    • פֵּרַ֥שְׂתִּיperastiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have scattered

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