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# פֶּרַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6545

**long hair** — 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

long hair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6545/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫רַע²: long hair locks [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6545/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] long hair of head, locks;—פ׳ abs. Ez 44:20; cstr. פ׳ שְׂעַר רֹאשׁוֹ Nu 6:5 (P).—Ju 5:2 Dt 32:42, v. i. פֶּרַע.

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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hair (1); the lock\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 44:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.20/#tree)

וְרֹאשָׁם֙ לֹ֣א יְגַלֵּ֔חוּ וּפֶ֖רַע לֹ֣א יְשַׁלֵּ֑חוּ כָּס֥וֹם יִכְסְמ֖וּ אֶת־רָאשֵׁיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and head their not they.will.shave and hair not they.will.let.loose surely.(trim) they.will.trim (et) heads their

*JPS 1917:* Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

[Numbers 6:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.5/#tree)

כָּל־יְמֵי֙ נֶ֣דֶר נִזְר֔וֹ תַּ֖עַר לֹא־יַעֲבֹ֣ר עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ עַד־מְלֹ֨את הַיָּמִ֜ם אֲשֶׁר־יַזִּ֤יר לַיהוָה֙ קָדֹ֣שׁ יִהְיֶ֔ה גַּדֵּ֥ל פֶּ֖רַע שְׂעַ֥ר רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* all the.days of.the.vow his.consecration his a.razor not it.will.pass over head his until are.completed the days which he.will.be.a.Nazirite to Yahweh holy he.will.be he.will.make.grow the.lock\[s\] of.the.hair his.head his

*JPS 1917:* All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6545.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6545/): 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).