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# פֶּרֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6531

**harshness** — used 6 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

harshness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6531/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫רֶךְ: harshness, severity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6531/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] harshness, severity;—in phr. בְּפ׳ Lv 25:53, בְּפָ֑רֶךְ v 43, 46 (H P), Ez 34:4 (all c. רדה rule harshly); Ex 1:13 (c. וַיַּעֲבִדוּ), v 14 (c. עֲבֹדָה; both P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: harshness (6).

## In the verses

[Exodus 1:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.13/#tree)

וַיַּעֲבִ֧דוּ מִצְרַ֛יִם אֶת־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּפָֽרֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and they.compelled.to.labor Egypt (et) the.people of.Israel with harshness

*JPS 1917:* And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour.

[Leviticus 25:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.43/#tree)

לֹא־תִרְדֶּ֥ה ב֖וֹ בְּפָ֑רֶךְ וְיָרֵ֖אתָ מֵאֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.rule over him with harshness and you.will.fear from God your

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6531.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6531/): 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).