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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 - And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - “Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7 - And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6 - “I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall 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. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth,[fn] because he said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3 - “May God Almighty bless you,
And make you fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:52

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52 - And the name of the second he called Ephraim:[fn] “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - “and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:22 - “Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a well;
His branches run over the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and 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 from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:9 - ‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - “so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:24 - He increased His people greatly,
And made them stronger than their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 128:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
In the very heart of your house,
Your children like olive plants
All around your table.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1 - There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse,
And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
Says the LORD God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:12 - People shall mourn upon their breasts
For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:8 - “Rain down, you heavens, from above,
And let the skies pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together.
I, the LORD, have created it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - “Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says the LORD, “that they will say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3 - “But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:10 - ‘Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline,[fn]
Planted by the waters,
Fruitful and full of branches
Because of many waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - “I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
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