King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H6509
Transliteration: parah
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-raw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bear fruit, be fruitful
Meaning: to bear fruit, be fruitful
Word Summary
parah: to bear fruit, be fruitful
Original Word: פָרָהTransliteration: parah
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-raw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bear fruit, be fruitful
Meaning: to bear fruit, be fruitful
Strong's Concordance
bear, bring forth fruit, be, cause to be, make fruitful, grow, increase A primitive root; to bear fruit (literally or figuratively) -- bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6509. parah
[מָּרָה] verb bear fruit, be fruitful (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew 1, מְּרִי = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician פר fruit; Ethiopic , blossom, bear fruit; Assyrian pir'u, posterity; compare also מֵּירָא ᵑ7 Syriac fruit, and BaZMG xii (1887), 604): —
Qal Perfect3plural מָּרוּ Exodus 1:7; 1plural consecutive וּפָרִינוּ Genesis 26:22, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִפְרֶה Isaiah 11:1, etc.; Imperative masculine singular מְּרֵה Genesis 35:11, masculine plural מְּרוּ 1:22 +; Participle active מֹּרֶה Deuteronomy 29:17, feminine מֹּרִיָּה Ezekiel 19:10; Isaiah 17:6, מֹּרָת (Ges§ 80g; for *מֹּרַיַת LagBN 81) Genesis 49:22 (twice in verse); —
1 of men and animals, Exodus 23:30 (E) Genesis 26:22 (J); especially + רבה Jeremiah 3:16; 23:3; Ezekiel 36:11; Genesis 35:11; 47:27 (P), and שָׁרַץ (P) 8:17; 9:7; Exodus 1:7, וגו וּמִלְאוּ וּרְבוּ ׳מְּרוּ Genesis 1:22, 28; 9:1.
2 of vine, מֹּרִיָּה גֶּפֶן Isaiah 32:12 fruitful vine, so Psalm 128:3 (simile of wife); compare (in figurative of Israel) Ezekiel 19:10; in Messianic prediction Isaiah 11:1 a shoot from his [Jesse's] roots shall bear fruit; with accusative פ ׳שֹׁרֶשׁ ראֹשׁ figurative, Deuteronomy 29:17 a root bearing gall (as its fruit); יֶשַׁע יִפְרוּ Isaiah 45:8 is dubious, read perhaps 3 feminine singular תֵּפֶר let earth be fruitful in salvation (Oort and others); Participle f., as substantive, הַמֹּרַיָּה the fruit-bearer, poetic for tree, 17:6 (compare [סָעִיף]
2); so מֹּרָת בֵּן Genesis 49:22 (twice in verse) Joseph is son of a fruit-bearer, i.e. a fruitful bough.
Hiph`il 1. cause to bear fruit,
2 make fruitful, subject ׳י with accusative of man or people:
1 Perfect3masculine singular suffix הִפְרַנִי Genesis 41:52 (E).
2 in P, וְהִפְרֵתִ֫י Genesis 17:6, 20 (רֵיתֵ֫י-), + הִרְבָּה Leviticus 26:9 (H); Imperfect3masculine singular jussive וְיַרְבְּךָ יַפְרְךָ Genesis 28:3, וַיֶּפֶר Psalm 105:24; Participle וְהִרְבִּיתִךָ מַפְרְךָ הִנְנִי Genesis 48:4.
3 shew fruitfullness, bear fruit (Ges§ 53 c, d, g): Imperfect3masculine singular יַפְרִיא Hosea 13:15 (as if from פרא).