Lexicon :: Strong's H6504 - pāraḏ

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four [branching] rivers.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and from these [people] the nations were separated and spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had left him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are standing, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

“[The founders of] two nations are in your womb;

And the separation of two nations has begun in your body;

The one people shall be stronger than the other;

And the older shall serve the younger.”

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the sons of man,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the sons of Israel.

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the [fn]father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the [fn]terebinth tree in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

“Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely and friends in their lives,

And in their death they were not separated;

They were swifter than eagles,

They were stronger than lions.

“The lion perishes for lack of prey,

And the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

“They are joined one to another;

They stick together and cannot be separated.

I am poured out like water,

And all my bones are out of joint.

My heart is like wax;

It is melted [by anguish] within me.

For behold, Your enemies, O LORD,

For behold, Your enemies will perish;

All who do evil will be scattered.

A perverse man spreads strife,

And one who gossips separates intimate friends.

He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love,

But he who repeats or gossips about a matter separates intimate friends.

He who [willfully] separates himself [from God and man] seeks his own desire,

He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

[fn]To cast lots puts an end to quarrels

And decides between powerful contenders.

Wealth makes many friends,

But a poor man is separated from his friend.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute

Or your brides when they commit adultery,

For the men themselves slip away with prostitutes,

And they offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes [who give their bodies in honor of the idol].

So the people without understanding [stumble and fall and] come to ruin.