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# פַּרְעֹשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6551

**Parosh** — 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

Parosh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6551/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פַּרְעֹשׁ²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6551/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Φορος, Φαρες, etc. (flea; cf. GrayProp. N. 94);— head of post-ex.. family Ezr 2:3 = Ne 7:8; Ezr 8:3; 10:25; Ne 3:25. Ne 10:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Parosh (5); Parosh (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.3/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔שׁ אַלְפַּ֕יִם מֵאָ֖ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Parosh two.thousand one.hundred seventy and two

*JPS 1917:* The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy and two.

[Nehemiah 7:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.8/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔שׁ אַלְפַּ֕יִם מֵאָ֖ה וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Parosh two.thousand one.hundred and seventy and two

*JPS 1917:* The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred and seventy and two.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6551.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6551/): 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).