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# פָּרַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6561

**tear apart** — used 10 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

tear apart [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6561/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרַק: vb. tear apart, away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6561/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tear apart, away (NH remove (load, etc.), Pi. separate, take to pieces; Arabic فَرَقَ split, divide; 𝔏 פְּרַק especially redeem, rescue; Syriac ܦܪܰܩ withdraw (intrans.), also remove, rescue; Ethiopic ፈረቀ set free);— Pf. 2 ms. וּפָרַקְּתָּ֫ Gn 27:40; Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיִּפְרְקֵנוּ ψ 136:24; Pt. act. פֹּרֵק La 5:8 ψ 7:3 tear away yoke from off (מֵעַל) neck Gn 27:10 (J); snatch from (מִן) foes, = rescue (Aramaic) La 5:8 ψ 136:24; so abs. ψ 7:3 (prefixing (וְ)אֵין, 𝔊 𝔖 Che Du We), \> Hup Bae al. snatch away as prey. Impf. 3 ms. יְפָרֵק Zc 11:16 he shall tear off their hoofs; Imv. mpl. פָּֽרְקוּ Ex 32:2 (E) tear off the golden ear-rings; Pt. מְפָרֵק 1 K 19:11 a great wind rending mts. (‖ מְשַׁבֵּר). tear off (for, i.e. from, oneself Ges§ 54 f); Impf. 3 mpl. וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ Ex 32:3 (E), c. acc. אֶת־נִזְמֵי הַוָּהָב; Imv. mpl. הִתְפָּרָ֑קוּ v 24 (E; obj. om.); pass. be broken off, Pf. 3 pl. הִתְפָּֽרְקוּ Ez 19:12 (branches).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] tears away (1); \[was\] tearing out (1); he (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 5:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.8/#tree)

עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* slaves they.have.ruled over us \[one.who\].tears.away there.\[is\].not from hand their

*JPS 1917:* Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.

[Psalms 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.3/#tree)

פֶּן־יִטְרֹ֣ף כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י פֹּ֝רֵ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃

*Word for word:* lest he.should.tear.to.pieces like a.lion self my tearing and there.\[is\].not a.deliverer

*JPS 1917:* Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6561.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6561/): 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).