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Dr), acc. of sins + ב instr. ### Jastrow 1903 פְּרַק: to separate, remove, take off Pa Pa to fall apart to untie; to redeem, deliver to remove, take off to alienate to divide, split, strip to break to solve problem; to reply to redeem to cause falling off of limbs to be broken, fall apart to be redeemed, released, delivered to be out of joint, dislocat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5e7/#m3) **The whole Jastrow entry:** to separate, remove, take off. Targ. Ex. XXXII, 2 sq. (O. ed. Berl. Pa.). Targ. Y. Num. IV, 5 (O. Pa.); a. fr.—V. פְּרִיקָא II.— to fall apart. B. Mets. 86ᵃ פ׳ אשיתא the frame wall fell apart (v., however, infra). to untie; to redeem, deliver. Targ. Ex. XXI, 8 (O. ed. Amst. וְיַפְרְ׳, read: וְיִ׳). Targ. Lev. XXVII, 13. Targ. Ps. XXXIV, 23 פָּרֵיק Ms. (ed. פרוק, corr. acc.); a. fr.—Part. pass. פָּרִיק; f. פְּרִיקָא; pl. פְּרִיקִין, פְּרִיקַיָּא; פְּרִיקָן. Targ. Y. Lev. XXV, 42; 55. Targ. Is. XXXV, 9; a. fr.—Keth. IV, 8 (in a marriage contract) אם תשתבאי אֶפְרְקִינָךְ if thou art captured, I shall redeem thee; ib. 51ᵇ. Ib. 47ᵃ מימנע ולא פָרֵיק he might refuse to redeem her. Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 55ᵃ bot. אֶפְרוֹק לך וכ׳ I will redeem it for thee with this Sela; a. fr. to remove, take off. Targ. O. Ex. XXXII, 2; a. fr.; v. supra.—Trnsf. to alienate. Targ. Prov. XVII, 9 (h. text מפריד; ib. XVI, 28 מעריק). to divide, split, strip. Targ. O. Lev. I, 17. Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXIII, 20 (some ed. מַפְרַק, corr. acc.). Targ. I Kings XIX, 11; a. e.—Ḥull. 93ᵃ, v. infra. \[to break,\] to solve a problem; to reply, opp. אקשי. B. Mets. 84ᵃ מְפָרִיקְנָא וכ׳, v. פֵּירוּקָא. Sabb. 145ᵃ הוא מותיב … מְפָרֵק לה he raise an objection, and himself answered it. Ab. Zar. 50ᵇ דִּיפָרְקִינָהּ, v. נַגָּרָא; a. fr. to redeem. Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 54ᵈ מְפָרֵק על פומיה redeems according to his estimation; a. fr. to cause a falling off of limbs. Gitt. 69ᵇ דמַפְרִיק because it causes &c. to be broken, fall apart. Ber. 54ᵃ אִתְפָּרְקָא ליה אשיתא וכ׳ (v. supra) the frame wall fell apart before him, and he went in. to be redeemed, released, delivered. Targ. Lev. XIX, 20. Targ. Ps. XXXIII, 16; a. fr.—Yalk. Esth. 1046 כיון … ולא אִיפְּרִיקוּ … לא מִיפְּרִיקוּ when he (Ahasver) saw that the seventy years were full, and they were not delivered, he thought, since they are not now delivered, they will never be delivered; Meg. 11ᵇ אִיתְפְּרוּק … מִיפָּרְקֵי Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note); a. e. to be out of joint, dislocated. Ḥull. 93ᵃ בהמה … פָּרוּקֵי מִפָּרְקָא (or מְפָרְקָא part. pass. Pa.) an animal while alive makes movements by which the limbs are temporarily dislocated. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates) ## Glosses MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: break off! (1). ## In the verses [Daniel 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.24/#tree) לָהֵ֣ן מַלְכָּ֗א מִלְכִּי֙ יִשְׁפַּ֣ר עֲלָ֔ךְ וַחֲטָאָךְ֙ בְּצִדְקָ֣ה פְרֻ֔ק וַעֲוָיָתָ֖ךְ בְּמִחַ֣ן עֲנָ֑יִן הֵ֛ן תֶּהֱוֵ֥א אַרְכָ֖ה לִשְׁלֵוְתָֽךְ׃ *Word for word:* therefore O king advice my let.it.be.acceptable to you and sin your by right.doing break.off! and iniquities your by showing.mercy.to poor.people whether it.will.be a.prolonging of prosperity your *JPS 1917:* Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by almsgiving, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy prosperity.' ## On Mova - [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5e7.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e8_5b7_5e7/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).