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# פָּרַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6565

**break** — used 47 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

break [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6565/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרַר: vb. Hoph. Phip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6565/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. break, frustrate (NH Pi. crumble; J.Aram פְּרַר; Assyrian parâru, destroy; ii. shatter; Liḥy. והפרו destroy, DHMEpigr. Denkm., No. 21, 7);—Pf. 3 ms. הֵפֵר Is 33:8 +, הֵפַ֑ר Gn 17:14 Nu 15:31; also metaplastic form הֵפִיר Ez 17:19 ψ 33:10 (Ges§ 67 v); 2 ms. וְהֵפַרְתָּ֫ה 2 S 15:34, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יָפֵר Nu 30:13 +, וַיָּ֫פֶר Ne 4:9, etc.; also 1 s. אָפִיר ψ 89:34 (Gesl.c.); Imv. ms. הָפֵר 2 Ch 16:3 ψ 85:5, הָפֵ֫רָה 1 K 15:19; Inf. abs\>. הָפֵר Pr 15:22 +; cstr. לְהָפֵר 2 S 17:14 +, לְהָפֵיר Zc 11:10, sf. לְהַפְרְכֶם Lv 26:15 (Ges§ 67 dd); Pt. מֵפֵר Is 44:25 Jb 5:12;— break, violate, especially c. acc. בְּרִית: of י׳ Ju 2:1 Je 14:21 Lv 26:44 Zc 11:10. of men violating covenant with י׳ Je 11:10; 31:32 Dt 31:16, 20 Lv 26:15 Ez 44:7 Gn 17:14 Is 24:5, Je 33:20 Ez 16:59. of men breaking compact, league (with men), Is 33:8 1 K 15:19 = 2 Ch 16:3, Ez 17:15, 16, 18, 19. of destroying the אַחֲוָה between Judah and Israel Zc 11:14. of breaking י׳’s מִצְוָה Nu 15:31 Ezr 9:14, תּוֹרָה ψ 119:126. frustrate, make ineffectual: counsel (עֵצָה) 2 S 15:34; 17:14 Ezr 4:5; י׳ subj. Ne 4:9 ψ 33:10; of man frustrating י׳’s counsel Is 14:27, so, c. acc. מִשְׁפָּט Jb 40:8; c. acc. מַחֲשָׁבוֹת in gen., of men Pr 15:22, י׳ subj. Jb 5:12, so, c. acc. אֹתוֹת Is 44:25. make vow (נֶדֶר) ineffectual, annul it Nu 30:9, 14 (opp. הֵקִים), v 13, also (Impf. + Inf. abs.) v 13, 16. of annulling (godly) fear Jb 15:4; חַסְדִּי לֹא אָפִיר מֵעִמּוֹ ψ 89:34 read prob. אָסִיר Ol Che Bae al.; הָפֵר בַּעַסְךָ 85:4 (read הָסֵר 𝔊 Bi Che). וְתָפֵר הָאֲבִיּוֹנָה Ec 12:5 is dub.: De Wild al. fails (to excite \[?וְתֻפַר Hoph. is made ineffectual\]); Ew bursts (Siegf וְתֻפַר); but caper-berry not dehiscent (PostFlora of Syriac 106 ff. M’Lean-DyerEncy. Bib. 696); PostLetter, July 28, 1901 breaks up (by shrivelling), fig. of failing sexual power; Aq from פרה bear fruit (cf. GFMJBL x (1891), 60); PerlesAnal. 30 וְתִפְרַח. Impf. be frustrated, 3 fs. וְתֻפָ֑ר Is 8:10 (of עֵצָה). be broken, of covenant, 3 fs. תֻּפַר Je 33:21; וַתֻּפַר Zc 11:11; so Is 28:18 (read וְתֻפַר for וְכֻפַּר, v. כ׳). Phip. Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיְפַרְפְּרֵנִי Jb 16:12 he hath shattered me.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 44 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, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: break (8); he will break (3); \[who\] frustrates (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:126](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.126/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.126/#tree)

עֵ֭ת לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לַיהוָ֑ה הֵ֝פֵ֗רוּ תּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* a.time to act \[belongs\].to Yahweh people.have.broken law your

*JPS 1917:* It is time for the LORD to work; they have made void Thy law.

[Job 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.12/#tree)

מֵ֭פֵר מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת עֲרוּמִ֑ים וְֽלֹא־תַעֲשֶׂ֥ינָה יְ֝דֵיהֶ֗ם תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[who\].frustrates \[the\].plans of.crafty.\[people\] and not they.will.bring.about hands their success

*JPS 1917:* He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6565.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6565/): 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).