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# פַּרְעֹשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6550

**flea** — used 2 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

flea [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6550/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּרְעֹשׁ: n.m. flea [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6550/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. flea (Assyrian puršuʾû, paršuʾû; on transp. of, v. HomA. u. A. i. 21);—fig. of insignificance 1 S 24:15; 26:20 נַפְשִׁי 𝔊 Th We Dr al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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: a flea (2).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 24:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.15/#tree)

אַחֲרֵ֨י מִ֤י יָצָא֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אַחֲרֵ֥י מִ֖י אַתָּ֣ה רֹדֵ֑ף אַֽחֲרֵי֙ כֶּ֣לֶב מֵ֔ת אַחֲרֵ֖י פַּרְעֹ֥שׁ אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* after whom? has.he.come.out the.king of.Israel after whom? \[are\].you pursuing after a.dog dead after a.flea one

*JPS 1917:* After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

[1 Samuel 26:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.26.20/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֗ה אַל־יִפֹּ֤ל דָּֽמִי֙ אַ֔רְצָה מִנֶּ֖גֶד פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כִּֽי־יָצָ֞א מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לְבַקֵּשׁ֙ אֶת־פַּרְעֹ֣שׁ אֶחָ֔ד כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר יִרְדֹּ֥ף הַקֹּרֵ֖א בֶּהָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and now not let.it.fall blood my ground to.\[the\] from before the.presence of.Yahweh (dm) he.has.come.out the.king of.Israel to seek (et) a.flea one just as someone.pursues the partridge in the mountains

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6550.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6550/): 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).