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# פָּרַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6533

**tear** — used 3 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

tear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6533/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרַם: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6533/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tear, rend garment (NH = BH; Arabic فَرَمَ chop up onions, etc. (LandbergProv. 421); Syriac ܦܪܰܡ cut, rend);—always c. בְּגָדִים: Impf. 3 ms. יִפְרֹם Lv 21:10 (H), 2 mpl. תִּפְרֹ֑מוּ 10:6 (P); Pt. pass. pl. פְּרֻמִים 13:45 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will tear (1); torn (1); you must tear (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 13:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.45/#tree)

וְהַצָּר֜וּעַ אֲשֶׁר־בּ֣וֹ הַנֶּ֗גַע בְּגָדָ֞יו יִהְי֤וּ פְרֻמִים֙ וְרֹאשׁוֹ֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה פָר֔וּעַ וְעַל־שָׂפָ֖ם יַעְטֶ֑ה וְטָמֵ֥א ׀ טָמֵ֖א יִקְרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\] has.a.serious.skin.disease whom \[is\].on him the plague garments his they.will.be torn and head his it.will.be let.loose and over a.moustache he.will.cover and unclean! unclean! he.will.call.out

*JPS 1917:* And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry: 'Unclean, unclean.'

[Leviticus 21:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.10/#tree)

וְהַכֹּהֵן֩ הַגָּד֨וֹל מֵאֶחָ֜יו אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־יוּצַ֥ק עַל־רֹאשׁ֣וֹ ׀ שֶׁ֤מֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה֙ וּמִלֵּ֣א אֶת־יָד֔וֹ לִלְבֹּ֖שׁ אֶת־הַבְּגָדִ֑ים אֶת־רֹאשׁוֹ֙ לֹ֣א יִפְרָ֔ע וּבְגָדָ֖יו לֹ֥א יִפְרֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the priest (the) great more than his.brothers whom it.was.poured on head his the.oil of.(the) anointing and he.has.filled (et) hand his to wear (et) the garments (et) head his not he.will.let.loose and garments his not he.will.tear

*JPS 1917:* And the priest that is highest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6533.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6533/): 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).