פָּרַץ
pârats · paw-rats'
to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in, up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, scatter, urge.
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
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › the head, the highest › to pursue the straight path
To speak, the word of the head, the highest that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פָּרַץ 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
48 occurrences · 48 OT · 0 NT · 43 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and brake down3 · 10%
- increased2 · 7%
- had made2 · 7%
- and thou shalt spread abroad1 · 3%
- came, and it is now increased1 · 3%
- how hast thou broken forth1 · 3%
- and grew1 · 3%
- break forth1 · 3%
- lest he break forth1 · 3%
- there was no open1 · 3%
- that break away1 · 3%
- compelled1 · 3%
- hath broken forth1 · 3%
- unto thee. and he pressed1 · 3%
- pressed1 · 3%
- and he urged1 · 3%
- abroad1 · 3%
- hath broken in1 · 3%
- made a breach1 · 3%
- and dispersed1 · 3%
- hath broken1 · 3%
- woman, had broken up1 · 3%
- came abroad1 · 3%
- that was broken1 · 3%
- also is broken down1 · 3%
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.