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Lexicon :: Strong's H6565 - pārar

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פָּרַר
Transliteration
pārar
Pronunciation
paw-rar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1829,1830,183

Strong’s Definitions

פָּרַר pârar, paw-rar'; a primitive root; to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate:—× any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, × clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, × utterly, make void.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x

The KJV translates Strong's H6565 in the following manner: break (25x), make void (5x), defeat (2x), disannul (2x), disappoint (2x), frustrate (2x), come to nought (2x), break asunder (1x), cause to cease (1x), clean (1x), dissolved (1x), divide (1x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x
The KJV translates Strong's H6565 in the following manner: break (25x), make void (5x), defeat (2x), disannul (2x), disappoint (2x), frustrate (2x), come to nought (2x), break asunder (1x), cause to cease (1x), clean (1x), dissolved (1x), divide (1x), miscellaneous (5x).

  1. to break, frustrate

    1. (Hiphil)

      1. to break, violate

      2. to frustrate, make ineffectual

    2. (Hophal)

      1. to be frustrated

      2. to be broken

      3. to break

    3. (Pilpel) to break to bits, shatter

  2. to split, divide

    1. (Qal) to split, crack through

    2. (Poel) to break apart

    3. (Hithpoel) to be split, be cracked through

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פָּרַר pârar, paw-rar'; a primitive root; to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate:—× any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, × clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, × utterly, make void.
STRONGS H6565: Abbreviations
† I. [פָּרַר] verb
Hiph. break, frustrate (Late Hebrew Pi. crumble; Jewish-Aramaic פְּרַר ; Assyrian parâru, destroy; II. shatter; Liḥyanian והפרו destroy, DHMEpigr. Denkm., No. 21, 7); — Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הֵפֵר Isaiah 33:8 +, הֵפַ֑ר Genesis 17:14; Numbers 15:31; also metaplastic from [H6331 הֵפִיר Ezekiel 17:19; Psalm 33:10 (Ges§ 67 v)]; 2nd person masculine singular וְהֵפַרְדָמתּ֫ה 2 Samuel 15:34, etc., Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יָפֵר Numbers 30:13 [Numbers 30:12] +, וַיָּפֶר Nehemiah 4:9 [Nehemiah 4:15], etc.; also 1st person singular [H6331 אָפִיר Psalm 89:34 [Psalm 89:33]] (Gesi. c.); Imperative masculine singular הָפֵר 2 Chronicles 16:3; Psalm 85:5 [Psalm 85:4], הָפֵרָה 1 Kings 15:19; Infinitive absolute הָפֵר Proverbs 15:22 +; construct לְהָפֵר 2 Samuel 17:14 +, לְהָפֵיר Zechariah 11:10, suffix לְהַפְרְכֶם Leviticus 26:15 (Ges§ 67 dd); Participle מֵפֵר Isaiah 44:25; Job 5:12; —
1. break, violate, especially with accusative בְּרִית:
a. of י׳ Judges 2:1; Jeremiah 14:21; Leviticus 26:44; Zechariah 11:10.
b. of men violating covenant with י׳ Jeremiah 11:10; Jeremiah 31:32; Deuteronomy 31:16, Deuteronomy 31:20; Leviticus 26:15; Ezekiel 44:7; Genesis 17:14; Isaiah 24:5 compare Jeremiah 33:20.
c. of men breaking compact, league (with men), Isaiah 33:8; 1 Kings 15:19 2 Chronicles 16:3; Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 17:16, Ezekiel 17:18, [H6331 Ezekiel 17:19].
d. of destroying the אַחֲוָה between Judah and Israel Zechariah 11:14.
e. of breaking י׳'s מִצְוָה Numbers 15:31; Ezra 9:14, תּוֺרָה Psalm 119:126.
2. frustrate, make ineffectual::
a. counsel (עֵצָה) 2 Samuel 15:34; 2 Samuel 17:14; Ezra 4:5; י׳ subject Nehemiah 4:9 [Nehemiah 4:15]; [H6331 Psalm 33:10]; of man frustrating י׳'s counsel Isaiah 14:27, so, with accusative מִשְׁפָּט Job 40:8; with accusative מַחֲשָׁבוֺת in general, of men Proverbs 15:22, י׳ subject Job 5:12 so, with accusative אֹתוֺת Isaiah 44:25.
b. make vow (נֶדֶר) ineffectual, annul it Numbers 30:9 [Numbers 30:8]; Numbers 30:14 [Numbers 30:13] (opposed to חֵקִים), Numbers 30:13 [Numbers 30:12], also (Imperfect + Infinitive absolute) Numbers 30:13 [Numbers 30:12], Numbers 30:16 [Numbers 30:15].
c. of annulling (godly) fear Job 15:4 [H6331 חַסְדִּי לֹא אָפִיר מֵעִמּוֺ, Psalm 89:34 [Psalm 89:33]] read probably אָסִיר Ol Che Bae and others; הָפֵר כַּעַסְךָ Psalm 85:4 [Psalm 85:3] (read הָסֵר Greek Version of the LXX Bi Che).
d. וְתָפֵר הָאֲבֵיּוֺנָה Ecclesiastes 12:5 is dubious: De Wild and others fails (to excite [? וְתֻפַר Hoph. is made ineffectual]); Ew bursts (Siegf וְתֻפַר); but caper-berry not dehiscent (PostFlora of Syr. 106 ff.); M'Lean-DyerEncy. Bid. 696.): PostLetter, July 28, 1901 breaks up (by shrivelling), figurative of failing sexual power; Aq from פרה bear fruit (compare GFMJBL x (1891), 60); PerlesAnal. 30 וְתִפְרַח.
Hoph. Imperfect.
1. be frustratred, 3rd person feminine singular וְתֻפָ֑ר Isaiah 8:10 (of עֵצָה).
2. be broken, of covenant, 3rd person feminine singular תֻּפַר Jeremiah 33:21; וִתֻּפַר Zechariah 11:11; so Isaiah 28:18 (read וְתֻפַר for וְכֻפַּר, see כ׳).
Pilp. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix וַיְפַרְפְּרֵנִי Job 16:12 he hath shattered me.

† II. [פָּרַר] verb split, divide (so Psalm 74:13 seems to require [but √ פור SS is possible], compare Arabic bdb083004 split, tear, rend; perhaps = I.; > BuhlLex. shake, quake, citing Arabic bdb083005 shake Aramaic אִתְפַּרְפַּר, bdb083006, compare Late Hebrew פִּרְפֵּר); —
Qal Infinitive absolute + Hithpō`. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular אֶרֶץ הִתְפּוֹרְרָה פּוֹר Isaiah 24:19 split or cracked through is the earth (CheHeb. Hpt. פרוק התפרקה).
Po`êl Perfect 2nd person masculine singular פּוֹרַרְתָּ Psalm 74:13 thou [י׳] didst divide the sea.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

17:14; 17:14

Leviticus

26:15; 26:15; 26:44

Numbers

15:31; 15:31; 30:8; 30:12; 30:12; 30:12; 30:13; 30:15

Deuteronomy

31:16; 31:20

Judges

2:1

2 Samuel

15:34; 15:34; 17:14; 17:14

1 Kings

15:19; 15:19

2 Chronicles

16:3; 16:3

Ezra

4:5; 9:14

Nehemiah

4:15; 4:15

Job

5:12; 5:12; 15:4; 16:12; 40:8

Psalms

74:13; 74:13; 85:4; 119:126

Proverbs

15:22; 15:22

Ecclesiastes

12:5

Isaiah

8:10; 14:27; 24:5; 24:19; 28:18; 33:8; 33:8; 44:25; 44:25

Jeremiah

11:10; 14:21; 31:32; 33:20; 33:21

Ezekiel

17:15; 17:16; 17:18; 44:7

Zechariah

11:10; 11:10; 11:11; 11:14

H6565

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6565 matches the Hebrew פָּרַר (pārar),
which occurs 50 times in 46 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:44 - Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:8 - But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. And the LORD will forgive her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will forgive her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself,[fn] her husband may establish,[fn] or her husband may make void.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:15 - But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:34 - But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:14 - And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordained[fn] to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:19 - “Let there be a covenant[fn] between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:3 - “There is a covenant[fn] between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5 - and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:14 - shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:15 - When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:12 - He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:4 - But you are doing away with the fear of God[fn]
and hindering meditation before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:12 - I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his target;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:8 - Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13 - You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the sea monsters[fn] on the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 85:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:4 - Restore us again, O God of our salvation,
and put away your indignation toward us!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:126

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:126 - It is time for the LORD to act,
for your law has been broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:22 - Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:5 - they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,[fn] and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:10 - Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, but it will not stand,
for God is with us.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:27 - For the LORD of hosts has purposed,
and who will annul it?
His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:5 - The earth lies defiled
under its inhabitants;
for they have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:19 - The earth is utterly broken,
the earth is split apart,
the earth is violently shaken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste;
the traveler ceases.
Covenants are broken;
cities[fn] are despised;
there is no regard for man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:25 - who frustrates the signs of liars
and makes fools of diviners,
who turns wise men back
and makes their knowledge foolish,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:21 - Do not spurn us, for your name’s sake;
do not dishonor your glorious throne;
remember and do not break your covenant with us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:20 - “Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:21 - then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:59

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:15 - But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:18 - He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:7 - in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You[fn] have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:10 - And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:11 - So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:14 - Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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