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# פָּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6510

**heifer** — used 26 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

heifer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6510/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרָה³: n.f. heifer, cow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6510/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. heifer, cow;—abs. פ׳ Is 11:7 +; sf. פָּרָתוֹ Jb 21:10; pl. פָּרוֹת Gn 32:16 +, פָּרֹת 41:26; cstr. פָּרוֹת Am 4:1;—as gift Gn 32:16; in Pharaoh’s dream 41:2, 3(×2) + 8 times 41; drawing cart 1 S 6:7, 12, 14 + פ׳ עָלוֹת v 7, 10 cows giving suck, milch cows; פ׳ calving Jb 21:10, grazing Is 11:7; פ׳ אֲדֻמָּה red heifer Nu 19:2, cf. v 5, 6, 9, 10; sim. of stubbornness Ho 4:16; פָּרוֹת הַבָּשָׁן Am 4:1, fig. of luxurious women.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cows (17); the heifer (3); a heifer (2).

## In the verses

[Job 21:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.10/#tree)

שׁוֹר֣וֹ עִ֭בַּר וְלֹ֣א יַגְעִ֑ל תְּפַלֵּ֥ט פָּ֝רָת֗וֹ וְלֹ֣א תְשַׁכֵּֽל׃

*Word for word:* bull his it.impregnates and not it.fails it.calves cow his and not it.miscarries

*JPS 1917:* Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

[Hosea 4:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.16/#tree)

כִּ֚י כְּפָרָ֣ה סֹֽרֵרָ֔ה סָרַ֖ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עַתָּה֙ יִרְעֵ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה כְּכֶ֖בֶשׂ בַּמֶּרְחָֽב׃

*Word for word:* (dm) like a.heifer stubborn it.is.stubborn Israel now he will.pasture.them Yahweh like a.lamb in.(the) roomy place

*JPS 1917:* For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn heifer; now shall the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6510.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6510/): 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).