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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6571

פָּרָשׁ

parashpaw-rawsh'

horse; horseman

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

Concordance spelling: pârâsh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6571is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 19 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 40
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6571

a steed (as stretched out to a vehicle, not single nor for mounting ); also (by implication) a driver (in a chariot), i.e. (collectively) cavalry

The King James renders it: horseman.

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

parash is rendered "horse; horseman". It stands 57 times in the Hebrew text, across nineteen books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "horse".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 50:9Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.
  • The Greek text spells it forty different ways.

The first use

Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.

Genesis 50:9פָּרָשִׁ֑ים

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

Where the word stands

The word stands in nineteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 20 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: horse, and horseman.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
horseStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 50:9Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.
horsemanStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • horsemen14
  • and horsemen8
  • and horsemen his4
  • a horseman3
  • and horsemen its3
  • and with horsemen3
  • the horsemen3
  • and by horsemen his2
  • and for horsemen2
  • horses2
  • and among horsemen his1
  • and by horsemen1

and 11 more, 57 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.

פָּרַשׂparasto spreadUses67
פָּרַרpararto breakUses50
פָּרַץparatsto break throughUses49
פָּרַחparachto sproutUses36
פָּרַעparato leadUses16
פָּרַסparasto divideUses14
פָּרַקparaqto tearUses10
פָּרָשׁparashto declareUses5
פָּרַםparamto tearUses3
פָּרוּרparurpotUses3
פָּרָשָׁהparashahdeclarationUses2
פָּרָזparazwarriorUses1

and 2 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 57, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

40 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

  • פָּרָשִׁ֑ים5
  • פָּֽרָשִׁ֑ים3
  • הַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔ים2
  • הַפָּרָשִׁ֑ים2
  • וּבְפָרָשָֽׁיו׃2
  • וּבְפָרָשִׁ֖ים2
  • וּלְפָרָשִֽׁים׃2
  • וּפָרָשָׁ֖יו2
  • וּפָרָשִׁים֒2
  • וּפָרָשִֽׁים׃2
  • פָּרָשִׁ֔ים2
  • פָּֽרָשִׁים֙2

and 28 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural17HNcmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural9HC/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular8HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural8HC/R/Ncmpa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural5HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular4HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc

Genesis

one use
  • Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.

    Genesis 50:9

    • פָּרָשִׁ֑יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen

Exodus

seven uses
  • The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon.

    Exodus 14:9

    • וּפָרָשָׁ֖יוufarashavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and horsemen his
  • And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen.

    Exodus 14:17

    • וּבְפָרָשָֽׁיו׃uvefarashavconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and by horsemen his
  • The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I am honored through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

    Exodus 14:18

    • וּבְפָרָשָֽׁיו׃uvefarashavconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and by horsemen his
  • And the Egyptians chased after them—all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen—and followed them into the sea.

    Exodus 14:23

    • וּפָרָשָׁ֑יוufarashavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and horsemen his
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”

    Exodus 14:26

    • פָּרָשָֽׁיו׃parashavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: horsemen its
  • The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

    Exodus 14:28

    • הַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔יםhaparashimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the horsemen
  • For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

    Exodus 15:19

    • וּבְפָרָשָׁיו֙uvefarashavconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and with horsemen his

Joshua

one use
  • When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.

    Joshua 24:6

    • וּבְפָרָשִׁ֖יםuvefarashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and with horsemen

1 Samuel

two uses
  • He said, “This will be the manner of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to his own chariots and horses, to run in front of his chariots.

    1 Samuel 8:11

    • וּבְפָרָשָׁ֔יוuvefarashavconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and among horsemen his
  • Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

    1 Samuel 13:5

    • פָּרָשִׁ֔יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen

2 Samuel

three uses
  • “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.

    2 Samuel 1:6

    • הַפָּרָשִׁ֖יםhaparashimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the horses
  • David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.

    2 Samuel 8:4

    • פָּרָשִׁ֔יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.

    2 Samuel 10:18

    • פָּרָשִׁ֑יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen

1 Kings

seven uses
  • At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.

    1 Kings 1:5

    • וּפָ֣רָשִׁ֔יםufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and horsemen
  • Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

    1 Kings 4:26

    • פָּרָשִֽׁים׃parashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

    1 Kings 9:19

    • הַפָּרָשִׁ֑יםhaparashimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the horsemen
  • But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.

    1 Kings 9:22

    • וּפָרָשָֽׁיו׃ סufarashavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and horsemen his
  • Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

    1 Kings 10:26

    • וּפָרָשִׁים֒ufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and horsemen
    • פָּֽרָשִׁ֑יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • and each one struck down his opponent. So the Arameans fled, with the Israelites in pursuit. But Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on horseback with the cavalry.

    1 Kings 20:20

    • וּפָרָשִֽׁים׃ufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and horsemen

2 Kings

four uses
  • As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.

    2 Kings 2:12

    • וּפָ֣רָשָׁ֔יוufarashavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and horsemen its
  • Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

    2 Kings 13:7

    • פָּֽרָשִׁים֙parashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”

    2 Kings 13:14

    • וּפָרָשָֽׁיו׃ufarashavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and horsemen its
  • For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

    2 Kings 18:24

    • וּלְפָרָשִֽׁים׃ulefarashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and for horsemen

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.

    1 Chronicles 18:4

    • פָּֽרָשִׁ֔יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

    1 Chronicles 19:6

    • וּפָרָשִֽׁים׃ufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and horsemen

2 Chronicles

seven uses
  • Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 1:14

    • וּפָרָשִׁים֒ufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and warhorses
    • פָּרָשִׁ֑יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: warhorses
  • as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

    2 Chronicles 8:6

    • הַפָּרָשִׁ֑יםhaparashimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the horsemen
  • But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slave labor, because they were his men of war, his officers and captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.

    2 Chronicles 8:9

    • וּפָרָשָֽׁיו׃ פufarashavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and horsemen his
  • Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 9:25

    • פָּרָשִׁ֑יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

    2 Chronicles 12:3

    • פָּרָשִׁ֑יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

    2 Chronicles 16:8

    • וּלְפָרָשִׁ֖יםulefarashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and to horsemen

Ezra

one use
  • For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”

    Ezra 8:22

    • וּפָרָשִׁ֔יםufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and horsemen

Nehemiah

one use
  • Then I went to the governors west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.

    Nehemiah 2:9

    • וּפָרָשִֽׁים׃ פufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and horsemen

Isaiah

seven uses
  • When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”

    Isaiah 21:7

    • פָּֽרָשִׁ֔יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horses
  • Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

    Isaiah 21:9

    • פָּֽרָשִׁ֑יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horses
  • Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.

    Isaiah 22:6

    • פָּֽרָשִׁ֑יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.

    Isaiah 22:7

    • וְהַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔יםvehaparashimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the horsemen
  • Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

    Isaiah 28:28

    • וּפָרָשָׁ֖יוufarashavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and horses his
  • Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.

    Isaiah 31:1

    • פָּֽרָשִׁים֙parashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

    Isaiah 36:9

    • וּלְפָרָשִֽׁים׃ulefarashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and for horsemen

Jeremiah

two uses
  • Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

    Jeremiah 4:29

    • פָּרָ֜שׁparashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a horseman
  • Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

    Jeremiah 46:4

    • הַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔יםhaparashimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the warhorses

Ezekiel

six uses
  • clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

    Ezekiel 23:6

    • פָּרָשִׁ֕יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.

    Ezekiel 23:12

    • פָּרָשִׁ֖יםparashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: horsemen
  • For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.

    Ezekiel 26:7

    • וּבְפָרָשִׁ֖יםuvefarashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and with horsemen
  • His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

    Ezekiel 26:10

    • פָּרַ֨שׁparashnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a horseman
  • The men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.

    Ezekiel 27:14

    • וּפָֽרָשִׁים֙ufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and horsemen
  • I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.

    Ezekiel 38:4

    • וּפָרָשִׁ֗יםufarashimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and horsemen

Daniel

one use
  • At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them like a flood.

    Daniel 11:40

    • וּבְפָ֣רָשִׁ֔יםuvefarashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and with horsemen

Hosea

one use
  • Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”

    Hosea 1:7

    • וּבְפָרָשִֽׁים׃uvefarashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and by horsemen

Joel

one use
  • Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.

    Joel 2:4

    • וּכְפָרָשִׁ֖יםukhefarashimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and like horsemen

Nahum

one use
  • Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—

    Nahum 3:3

    • פָּרָ֣שׁparashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a horseman

Habakkuk

two uses
  • Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

    Habakkuk 1:8

    • פָּֽרָשָׁ֑יוparashavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: warhorses its
    • וּפָֽרָשָׁיו֙ufarashavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and horsemen its

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