Lexicon :: Strong's H6504 - pāraḏ

A river went[fn] out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.[fn]

From these descendants, the peoples of the coasts and islands spread out into their lands according to their clans in their nations, each with its own language.

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

“Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

So Lot chose the entire plain of the Jordan for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.

After Lot had separated from him, the LORD said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

And the LORD said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;

two peoples will come from you and be separated.

One people will be stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.

Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked sheep and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance[fn]

and divided the human race,

he set the boundaries of the peoples

according to the number of the people of Israel.[fn]

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the sons of Hobab, Moses’s father-in-law, and pitched his tent beside the oak tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

Where you die, I will die,

and there I will be buried.

May the LORD punish me,

and do so severely,

if anything but death separates you and me.

Saul and Jonathan,

loved and delightful,

they were not parted in life or in death.

They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.

As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire with horses of fire suddenly appeared and separated the two of them. Then Elijah went up into heaven in the whirlwind.

Then I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “The work is enormous and spread out, and we are separated far from one another along the wall.

Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, “There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom, keeping themselves separate. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws. It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,

and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

They are joined to one another,

so closely connected[fn] they cannot be separated.

I am poured out like water,

and all my bones are disjointed;

my heart is like wax,

melting within me.

For indeed, LORD, your enemies —

indeed, your enemies will perish;

all evildoers will be scattered.

A contrary person spreads conflict,

and a gossip separates close friends.

Whoever conceals an offense promotes love,

but whoever gossips about it separates friends.

One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires;

he rebels against all sound wisdom.

Casting the lot ends quarrels

and separates powerful opponents.

Wealth attracts many friends,

but a poor person is separated from his friend.

That is what their faces were like. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching that of another and two wings covering its body.

I will not punish your daughters

when they act promiscuously

or your daughters-in-law

when they commit adultery,

for the men themselves go off with prostitutes

and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.

People without discernment are doomed.