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# פָּרַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6524

**bud** — used 34 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

bud [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6524/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרַח: vb. bud, sprout, shoot Hiph. Qal Hiph. Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6524/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bud, sprout, shoot (NH Hiph. = BH Hiph. 2; Ecclus פרח Qal = flourish, Hiph. causat., 49:10; 40:19; Arabic فَرِخَ ii. hatch, also sprout, فَرْخٌ young of bird (v. אֶפְרֹחַ infr.), twig, sprout; Assyrian pirḫu, n. sprout;—on meaning cf. GFMJBL x (1891), 57)— Pf. 3 ms. פ׳ Ez 7:10 +, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִפְרַח Ho 14:6 +, 3 fpl. תִּפְרַחְנָה Is 66:14, etc.; Inf. abs. פָּרֹחַ 35:2; cstr. בִּפְרֹחַ ψ 92:8; Pt. f. פֹּרַ֫חַת Gn 40:10;—bud, sprout, send out shoots, of vine Gn 40:10 (E), Ho 14:8 (sim.), Ct 6:11; 7:13; fig-tree Hb 3:17 (תִּפְרֶה); rods Nu 17:20, 23; metaph. of restored Isr. Ho 14:6; Is 27:6, cf. of bones Is 66:14 (כַּדֶּשֶׂא); of righteous ψ 72:7; 92:13 Pr 11:28; of wicked (כְּמוֹ עֵשֶׂב) ψ 92:8; also of steppe (עֲרָבָה) Is 35:1, פָּרֹחַ תִּפְרַח v 2; fig. of judgment Ho 10:4 (כָּרֹאשׁ; but on text v. Now); of זָדוֹן (q.v. p. 268) Ez 7:10. Pf. 1 s. הִפְרַחְתִּי Ez 17:24; Impf. יַפְרִחַ Jb 14:9, etc.;— cause to bud or sprout, c. acc. עֵץ Ez 17:24, זֶרַע Is 17:11, both fig. shew buds, sprouts, of tree Jb 14:9; fig. of righteous ψ 92:14; = flourish, of אֹהֶל יְשָׁרִים, Pr 14:11 (all Qal in—ִ according to BaZMG xliii (1889), 180f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will bud (4); it has broken out (3); breaking out (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 14:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.11/#tree)

בֵּ֣ית רְ֭שָׁעִים יִשָּׁמֵ֑ד וְאֹ֖הֶל יְשָׁרִ֣ים יַפְרִֽיחַ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].house of.wicked.\[people\] it.will.be.destroyed and.\[the\] tent of.upright.\[people\] it.will.flourish

*JPS 1917:* The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tent of the upright shall flourish.

[Job 14:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.9/#tree)

מֵרֵ֣יחַ מַ֣יִם יַפְרִ֑חַ וְעָשָׂ֖ה קָצִ֣יר כְּמוֹ־נָֽטַע׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] scent of.water it.will.show.buds and it.will.produce branch\[es\] like a.plant

*JPS 1917:* Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6524.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6524/): 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).