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# פָּרָשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6571

**horseman** — used 57 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

horseman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6571/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרָשׁ²: n.m. horseman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6571/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Na 3:3 horseman (i.e. parrâš, cf. Ges§ 84 b b; Arabic فَارِسٌ; Ethiopic ፈረስ; Aramaic פָּרָשׁ, ܦܰܪܳܫܳܐ );—abs. פ׳ Na 3:3 Je 4:29, also פָּרַשׁ Ez 26:10 (as if cstr. KöSynt. § 337 s); pl. פָּרָשָׁים Gn 50:9 +; sf. פָּרָשָׁיו Ex 14:9 +;—horseman, usually pl., especially + רֶכֶב chariotry: Egyptian Gn 50:9 (J), Jos 24:6 (E), Ex 14:9,17,18,23,26,28 (all P), 15:19 (song), Is 31:1; 2 K 18:34 = Is 36:9, 2 Ch 12:3 cf. 16:8; Philistine 1 S 13:5; 2 S 1:6 (del. בַּעֲלֵי 𝔊 We Dr Bu HPS); Aramæan 2 S 10:18 (but read prob. אִישׁ, cf. ‖ 1 Ch 19:18, We Dr al.), and (+ אִישׁ רַגְלִי) 2 S 8:4 = 1 Ch 18:4, cf. 1 Ch 19:6; also עַל־סוּס וּפָרָשִׁים 1 K 20:20 (si vera l.); Isr., of Adonijah 1 K 1:5 (+ רֶכֶב, חֲמִשִּׁים אִישׁ רָצִים); Solomon + רֶכֶב 9:19, 22; 10:26(×2) = 2 Ch 8:6, 9; 1:14(×2), prob. also 1 K 5:6 (+ סוּסִים לְמֶרְכָּבוֹ) = 2 Ch 9:25 (+ סוּסִים ומֶרְכָּבוֹת); Jehoahaz 2 K 13:7 (+ רַגְלִי); + רֶכֶב, fig. of Elijah 2 K 2:12, of Elisha 13:14; + סוּסִים Ho 1:7; Assyrian Is 22:6, 7 (+ רֶכֶב), cf. Na 3:3, פ׳ רֹכְבֵי סוּסִים Ez 23:6, 12; Babylonian Hb 1:8(×2) Je 4:29 (+ רֹמֵה קֶשֶׁת), Ez 26:7 (+ סוּס, רֶכֶב), v 10 (+ גַּלְגַּל וָרֶכֶב), Scythian (Gog) 38:4 (+ סוּסִים); Persian Is 21:7, 9 (צֶמֶד פ׳), Ne 2:9 Ezr 8:22; of king of north Dn 11:40 (+ רֶכֶב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 48 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: horsemen (46); of a horseman (2); of horses (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.14/#tree)

מִבֵּ֖ית תּוֹגַרְמָ֑ה סוּסִ֤ים וּפָֽרָשִׁים֙ וּפְרָדִ֔ים נָתְנ֖וּ עִזְבוֹנָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* from the.house of.Togarmah horses and horsemen and mules they.exchanged wares your

*JPS 1917:* They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and horsemen and mules.

[Joel 2:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.4/#tree)

כְּמַרְאֵ֥ה סוּסִ֖ים מַרְאֵ֑הוּ וּכְפָרָשִׁ֖ים כֵּ֥ן יְרוּצֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].like.\[the\] appearance of.horses appearance its and like horsemen so they run

*JPS 1917:* The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6571.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6571/): 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).