פָּרַשׂ
pâras · paw-ras'
to break apart, disperse, etc.
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to break apart, disperse, etc.
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
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
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to speak, the word › the head, the highest › to consume, to destroy
To speak, the word of the head, the highest that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of פָּרַשׂ 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
67 occurrences · 67 OT · 0 NT · 52 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and spread7 · 16%
- and spread forth4 · 9%
- and they shall spread3 · 7%
- spread3 · 7%
- and shall spread2 · 5%
- they shall spread2 · 5%
- spread forth2 · 5%
- and stretch2 · 5%
- spreadeth forth2 · 5%
- i will spread abroad1 · 2%
- and spread abroad1 · 2%
- shall stretch1 · 2%
- spread out1 · 2%
- and he spread abroad1 · 2%
- spreadeth abroad1 · 2%
- them. and they spread1 · 2%
- and they stretched forth1 · 2%
- spread up1 · 2%
- that spread out1 · 2%
- spread themselves forth1 · 2%
- and shall spread forth1 · 2%
- and spread out1 · 2%
- behold, he spreadeth1 · 2%
- or stretched out1 · 2%
- scattered1 · 2%
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.