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Lexicon :: Strong's H6578 - pᵊrāṯ

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פְּרָת
Transliteration
pᵊrāṯ
Pronunciation
per-awth'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to break forth
Strong’s Definitions

פְּרָת Pᵉrâth, per-awth'; from an unused root meaning to break forth; rushing; Perath (i.e. Euphrates), a river of the East:—Euphrates.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's H6578 in the following manner: Euphrates (19x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's H6578 in the following manner: Euphrates (19x).

  1. Euphrates = "fruitfulness"

    1. the largest and longest river of western Asia; rises from two chief sources in the Armenian mountains and flows into the Persian Gulf

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פְּרָת Pᵉrâth, per-awth'; from an unused root meaning to break forth; rushing; Perath (i.e. Euphrates), a river of the East:—Euphrates.
STRONGS H6578: Abbreviations
† פְּרָת proper name, masculine, of a river Eupharates, Ευφρατης (Assyrian Purattu DlPa. 169 ff., Whence Old Persian, Ufrâtu, SpiegAPK 211); — the greatest river of West Asia; פ׳ Genesis 2:14. נְהַר פ׳ Genesis 15:18; (both secondary phrases in J), נְהַר פ׳ also 2 Samuel 8:3 (Qr, see נָהָר), Jeremiah 46:2, 6, 10; Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 1:4 (D), 2 Kings 23:29; 2 Kings 24:7; 1 Chronicles 5:9; 1 Chronicles 18:3; נהר omitted Jeremiah 13:4, 5, 6, 7 (where Ew Hi Marti, after SchickZPV iii. ll, think of some other פְּרָת, but Gf Gie and most defend Euphrates) Jeremiah 51:63; 2 Chronicles 35:20 (compare Genesis 2:14 above); name not certainly attested before D Jeremiah; on earlier הַנָּהָר for this river see נ׳.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:14; 2:14; 15:18

Deuteronomy

1:7; 11:24

Joshua

1:4

2 Samuel

8:3

2 Kings

23:29; 24:7

1 Chronicles

5:9; 18:3

2 Chronicles

35:20

Jeremiah

13:4; 13:5; 13:6; 13:7; 46:2; 46:6; 46:10; 51:63

H6578

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6578 matches the Hebrew פְּרָת (pᵊrāṯ),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - “Take the belt that you have bought, which is around your loins, and arise, go to [fn]the Euphrates H6578 and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:5 - So I went and hid it by the Euphrates H6578, as Yahweh had commanded me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - Now it happened that after many days Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates H6578 and take from there the belt which I commanded you to hide there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphrates H6578 and dug, and I took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined; it was totally worthless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 -

To Egypt, concerning the military force of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates H6578 River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 -

Let not the swift man flee,

Nor the mighty man escape;

In the north beside the river Euphrates H6578

They have stumbled and fallen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 -

Indeed, that day belongs to Lord Yahweh of hosts,

A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His adversaries;

And the sword will devour and be satiated

And [fn]drink its fill of their blood;

For there will be a sacrifice to Lord Yahweh of hosts

In the land of the north by the river Euphrates H6578.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:63

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:63 - “And as soon as you finish reading this [fn]scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates H6578,
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