פָּרַד
pârad · paw-rad'
to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: disperse, divide, be out of joint, part, scatter (abroad), separate (self), sever self, stretch, sunder.
Letters
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › the head, the highest › the doorway, the way in
To speak, the word of the head, the highest of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פָּרַד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
26 occurrences · 26 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- separateth2 · 8%
- and from thence it was parted1 · 4%
- divided in1 · 4%
- divided1 · 4%
- separate thyself1 · 4%
- and they separated themselves1 · 4%
- was separated1 · 4%
- shall be separated1 · 4%
- did separate1 · 4%
- when he separated1 · 4%
- had severed1 · 4%
- part1 · 4%
- they were not divided1 · 4%
- and parted1 · 4%
- and we are separated1 · 4%
- and dispersed1 · 4%
- are scattered abroad1 · 4%
- that they cannot be sundered1 · 4%
- are out of joint1 · 4%
- shall be scattered1 · 4%
- a man, having separated1 · 4%
- and parteth1 · 4%
- is separated1 · 4%
- were stretched1 · 4%
- for themselves are separated1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.