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# פַּרְעֹה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6547

**Pharaoh** — used 274 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

Pharaoh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6547/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּרְעֹה: n.m. Pharaoh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6547/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pharaoh, Φαραω, title of Egyptian kings (Egyptian pr-ʿo, great house, of royal court, and (in new kingdom) of king GriffithHastings DB MeyGesch. Alt. i. 59 SteindBAS i. 343; in Assyrian priʾu according to most, cf. COTGloss. Steindl.c., but v. WklMVAG, 1898, 3 f.);—פ׳ Gn 12:15(×3), 17 + 212 times Hex (mostly JE, rarely DP), 1 S 2:27; 6:6; 1 K 3:1(×2) + 19 times K, Is 19:11(×2) + 3 times, Je 25:19 + 10 times, Ez 17:17 + 12 times, Ne 9:10; 1 Ch 4:18; 2 Ch 8:11 ψ 135:9; 136:15; Ct 1:9; + מֶלֶךְ מִצְרַיִם (not early) Je 25:19; 46:17; Dt 7:8; 11:3; Ez 29:2, 3; 30:21, 22; 31:2; 1 K 3:1; 9:16; 11:18; 2 K 17:7; 18:21 = Is 36:6; Gn 41:46 (E), Ex 6:11, 13, 27, 29; 14:8 (all P); c. n.pr. פ׳ חָפְרַע Je 44:30, פ׳ נְכֹה 46:2; 2 K 23:29, 33, 34, 35.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 39 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 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: Pharaoh (183); of Pharaoh (88); O Pharaoh (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.10.18/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֖א מֵעִ֣ם פַּרְעֹ֑ה וַיֶּעְתַּ֖ר אֶל־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out from with Pharaoh and he.prayed to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.

[Jeremiah 46:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.17/#tree)

קָרְא֖וּ שָׁ֑ם פַּרְעֹ֤ה מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ שָׁא֔וֹן הֶעֱבִ֖יר הַמּוֹעֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* people.will.call.out there Pharaoh the.king of.Egypt \[is\].a.noise he.has.let.pass.by the.appointed time

*JPS 1917:* They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6547.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6547/): 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).