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Lexicon :: Strong's H6509 - pārâ

Aa
פָּרָה
Transliteration
pārâ
Pronunciation
paw-raw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1809

Strong’s Definitions

פָּרָה pârâh, paw-raw'; a primitive root; to bear fruit (literally or figuratively):—bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's H6509 in the following manner: fruitful (19x), increased (3x), grow (2x), beareth (1x), forth (1x), bring fruit (1x), make fruitful (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's H6509 in the following manner: fruitful (19x), increased (3x), grow (2x), beareth (1x), forth (1x), bring fruit (1x), make fruitful (1x).

  1. to bear fruit, be fruitful, branch off

    1. (Qal) to bear fruit, be fruitful

    2. (Hiphil)

      1. to cause to bear fruit

      2. to make fruitful

      3. to show fruitfulness, bear fruit

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פָּרָה pârâh, paw-raw'; a primitive root; to bear fruit (literally or figuratively):—bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.
STRONGS H6509: Abbreviations
† [פָּרָה] verb bear fruit, be fruitful (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew, 1, פְּרִי = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician פר fruit; Ethiopic bdb082601, bdb082602 blossom, bear fruit; Assyrian pir'u, posterity; compare also Targum פֵּירָא Syriac bdb082603 fruit, and BaZMG xii (1887), 604): —
Qal Perfect 3rd person plural פָּרוּ Exodus 1:7; 1st person plural consecutive וּפָרִינוּ Genesis 26:22, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִפְרֶה Isaiah 11:1, etc.; Imperative masculine singular פְּרֵה Genesis 35:11, masculine plural פְּרוּ Genesis 1:22 +; Participle active פֹּרֶה Deuteronomy 29:17, feminine פֹּרִיָּה Ezekiel 19:10; Isaiah 17:6, פּרָת (Ges§ 80 g; for *פֹּרַיַת LagBN 81) Genesis 49:22 (twice in verse); —
1. of men and animals, Exodus 23:30 (E) Genesis 26:22 (J); especially + רבה Jeremiah 3:16; Jeremiah 23:3; Ezekiel 36:11; Genesis 35:11; Genesis 47:27 (P), and שָׁרַץ (P) Genesis 8:17; Genesis 9:7; Exodus 1:7, וגו׳ וּמִלְאוּ וּרְבוּ פְּרוּ Genesis 1:22, 28; Genesis 9:1.
2. of vine, פֹּרִיָּה גֶּפֶן Isaiah 32:12 fruitful vine, so Psalm 128:3 (simile of wife); compare (in figurative of Israel) Ezekiel 19:10; in Messianic prediction Isaiah 11:1 a shoot from his [Jesse's] roots shall bear fruit; with accusative ראֹשׁ שֹׁרֶשׁ פ׳ figurative, Deuteronomy 29:17 a root bearing gall (as its fruit); יִפְרוּ יֶשַׁע Isaiah 45:8 is dubious, read perhaps 3rd person feminine singular תֵּפֶר let earth be fruitful in salvation (Oort and others); Participle feminine, as substantive, הַפֹּרִיָּה the fruit-bearer, poetic for tree, Isaiah 17:6 (compare [סָעִיף] 2); so פֹּרָת בֵּן Genesis 49:22 (twice in verse) Joseph is son of a fruit-bearer, i.e. a fruitful bough.
Hiph. 1. cause to bear fruit. 2. make fruitful, subject י׳ with accusative of man or people:
1. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix הִפְרַנִי Genesis 41:52 (E).
2. in P, וְהִפְרֵתִ֫י Genesis 17:6, 20 (רֵיתֵ֫י-), + הִרְבָּה Leviticus 26:9 (H); Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular jussive יַפְרְךָ וְיַרְבְּךָ Genesis 28:3, וַיֶּפֶר Psalm 105:24; Participle הִנְנִי מַפְרְךָ וְהִרְבִּיתִךָ Genesis 48:4.
3. shew fruitfullness, bear fruit (Ges§ 53 c, d, g): Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַפְרִיא [H6500 Hosea 13:15] (as if from פרא).

פֹּרָת Genesis 49:22 see [פָּרָה] above.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:22; 1:22; 1:28; 8:17; 9:1; 9:7; 17:6; 17:20; 26:22; 26:22; 28:3; 35:11; 35:11; 41:52; 47:27; 48:4; 49:22; 49:22; 49:22

Exodus

1:7; 1:7; 23:30

Leviticus

26:9

Deuteronomy

29:17; 29:17

Psalms

105:24; 128:3

Isaiah

11:1; 11:1; 17:6; 17:6; 32:12; 45:8

Jeremiah

3:16; 23:3

Ezekiel

19:10; 19:10; 36:11

H6509

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Strong's Number H6509 matches the Hebrew פָּרָה (pārâ),
which occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7 - And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6 - I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3 - And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52 - And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:22 - Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:30 - Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:9 - And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:24 - And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1 - And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:12 - Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:8 - Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3 - And I will get the rest of my flock together from all the countries where I have sent them, and will make them come back again to their resting-place; and they will have offspring and be increased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:10 - Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
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