פָּרָה
pârâh · paw-raw'
to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
To speak, the word of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פָּרָה 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
29 occurrences · 29 OT · 0 NT · 26 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- be fruitful2 · 7%
- unto them, be fruitful2 · 7%
- and be fruitful1 · 4%
- and you, be ye fruitful1 · 4%
- and i will make1 · 4%
- fruitful1 · 4%
- him, and will make him fruitful1 · 4%
- for us, and we shall be fruitful1 · 4%
- thee, and make thee fruitful1 · 4%
- hath caused me to be fruitful1 · 4%
- therein, and grew1 · 4%
- unto me, behold, i will make thee fruitful1 · 4%
- is a fruitful1 · 4%
- even a fruitful1 · 4%
- were fruitful1 · 4%
- thee, until thou be increased1 · 4%
- unto you, and make you fruitful1 · 4%
- that beareth1 · 4%
- and he increased1 · 4%
- shall be as a fruitful1 · 4%
- shall grow1 · 4%
- in the outmost fruitful1 · 4%
- for the fruitful1 · 4%
- and let them bring forth1 · 4%
- and increased1 · 4%
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.