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# פֶּרֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6563

**rapine** — 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

rapine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6563/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫רֶק: parting of ways plunder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6563/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] parting of ways, Ob 14. plunder (as snatched away), Na 3:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of ways (1); plunder (1).

## In the verses

[Nahum 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.1/#tree)

ה֖וֹי עִ֣יר דָּמִ֑ים כֻּלָּ֗הּ כַּ֤חַשׁ פֶּ֙רֶק֙ מְלֵאָ֔ה לֹ֥א יָמִ֖ישׁ טָֽרֶף׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[the\].city of.blood(s) of.it all lying plunder \[is\].full not it.will.depart prey

*JPS 1917:* Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

[Obadiah 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.14/#tree)

וְאַֽל־תַּעֲמֹד֙ עַל־הַפֶּ֔רֶק לְהַכְרִ֖ית אֶת־פְּלִיטָ֑יו וְאַל־תַּסְגֵּ֥ר שְׂרִידָ֖יו בְּי֥וֹם צָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and do.not stand at the.parting of.ways to cut.off (et) fugitives his and do.not deliver.up survivors his on.\[the\] day of.trouble

*JPS 1917:* Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6563.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6563/): 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).