STRONGS NUMBER H6541


Word Summary
parsah: a hoof
Original Word: פַרְסָה
Transliteration: parsah
Phonetic Spelling: (par-saw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a hoof
Meaning: a claw, split hoof
Strong's Concordance
claw, cloven-footed, hoof

Feminine of perec; a claw or split hoof -- claw, (cloven-)footed, hoof.

see HEBREW perec

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6541. parsah

מַּרְסָה‎21 noun feminine hoof (probably originally divided hoof; compare NöZA 1 (1886), 417, later of any hoof (see

2 below), even Aramaic of foot-sole of dove ᵑ7‎Onk Genesis 8:9, and of men (Jeremiah 47:3 +), compare Nöl.c.); — ׳פ‎ absolute Exodus 10:26 +; plural מְּרָס(וֺ)ת‎ Deuteronomy 14:6; Leviticus 11:3; construct id. Isaiah 5:23 +; suffix מַּרְסֹתַיִךְ‎ Micah 4:13, מַּרְסֵיהֶן‎ Zechariah 11:16; —

1 of ruminants Exodus 10:26 (E; meton. for animal itself), Micah 4:13 (figurative of Zion), Ezekiel 32:13; Zechariah 11:16 (figurative); especially ׳פ שֶׁסַע‎ (שְׁתֵּי‎) Deuteronomy 14:6 = Leviticus 11:3, 7, and with מָּרַס‎

Hiph`il (q. v.) Leviticus 11:3 10t. Leviticus 11 Deuteronomy 14..

2 of horses (not divided) Isaiah 5:28; Ezekiel 26:11 (so ᵑ6 ᵑ7‎ ), Jeremiah 47:3.

I. פרע‎ (√ of following; compare perhaps Arabic overtop, figurative excel; noble, eminent man; Sabean פרע‎ be lofty OsZMG xix (1865), 178 f., פרע‎ highest part SabDenkm90, figurative best, DHMib., 32 f. CISiv. No. 2. 1. 13 especially of offering DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 341 ff. (compare Arabic firstling offered to gods)).