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# פֶּרַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6546

**leader** — 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

leader [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6546/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫רַע: leader [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6546/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] leader (?);—pl. abs. בִּפְרֹעַ פְּרָעוֹת Ju 5:2 for the leading of the leaders (𝔊A Be Bu al., but uncertain; 𝔊B Symm, cf. WeIsr. u. Jüd. Gesch. (2), 97; Heid. (2), 123 al., for the loosing of locks \[ii. פֶּרַע\], in vow of war; on these and other views v. especially GFMad loc.; conj. also by LambertRÉJ xxiv. 140 GrimmeZMG 1 (1896), 572 CheJQ, July 1899, 561 \[reading ברכו\]); cstr. מֵרֹאשׁ פַּרְעוֹת אוֹיֵב Dt 32:42 from the head of leaders of the foe 𝔊 Di Steuern al.; Kn Ke Dr al. from the long-haired heads of the foe.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.2/#tree)

בִּפְרֹ֤עַ פְּרָעוֹת֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּהִתְנַדֵּ֖ב עָ֑ם בָּרֲכ֖וּ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* when acted.as.leaders leaders in Israel when volunteers a.people bless Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* When men let grow their hair in Israel, when the people offer themselves willingly, bless ye the LORD.

[Deuteronomy 32:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.42/#tree)

אַשְׁכִּ֤יר חִצַּי֙ מִדָּ֔ם וְחַרְבִּ֖י תֹּאכַ֣ל בָּשָׂ֑ר מִדַּ֤ם חָלָל֙ וְשִׁבְיָ֔ה מֵרֹ֖אשׁ פַּרְע֥וֹת אוֹיֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* I.will.make.drunk arrows my from blood and sword my it.will.devour flesh from.\[the\] blood of.\[the\].slain and.\[the\] captive\[s\] from.\[the\] chief of.\[the\].leaders of.\[the\].enemy

*JPS 1917:* I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6546.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6546/): 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).