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Lexicon :: Strong's H6509 - pārâ

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פָּרָה
Transliteration
pārâ
Pronunciation
paw-raw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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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 Box Gen 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7 - As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6 - I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,[fn] saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3 - May God Almighty[fn] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - And God said to him, “I am God Almighty[fn]; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52 - The second son he named Ephraim[fn] and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:22 - “Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:30 - Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:9 - “ ‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:24 - The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1 - A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,”

declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:12 - Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:8 - “You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the LORD, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3 - “I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:10 - “ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard[fn] planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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