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# פְּרָת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6578

**Euphrates** — used 19 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

Euphrates [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6578/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּרָת: n.pr. flum. Euphrates [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6578/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. flum. Euphrates, Ευφρατης (Assyrian Purattu DlPa 169 ff., whence OPers. Ufrâtu, SpiegAPK 211);—the greatest river of W. Asia; פ׳ Gn 2:14, נְהַר פ׳ 15:18 (both secondary phrases in J), נְהַר פ׳ also 2 S 8:3 (Qr, v. נָהָר), Je 46:2, 6, 10 Dt 1:7; 11:24; Jos 1:4 (D), 2 K 23:29; 24:7; 1 Ch 5:9; 18:3; נהר om. Je 13:4, 5, 6, 7 (where Ew Hi Marti, after SchickZPV iii. 11, think of some other פְּרָת, but Gf Gie and most defend Euphrates), 51:63 2 Ch 35:20 (cf. Gn 2:14 supr.); name not certainly attested before D Je; on earlier הַנָּהָר for this river v. נ׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Euphrates (11); to (3); Euphrates (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 13:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.5/#tree)

וָאֵלֵ֕ךְ וָאֶטְמְנֵ֖הוּ בִּפְרָ֑ת כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אוֹתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and I.went and I hid.it at Perath just as he.had.commanded Yahweh me

*JPS 1917:* So I went, and hid it in Perath, as the LORD commanded me.

[Jeremiah 46:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.6/#tree)

אַל־יָנ֣וּס הַקַּ֔ל וְאַל־יִמָּלֵ֖ט הַגִּבּ֑וֹר צָפ֙וֹנָה֙ עַל־יַ֣ד נְהַר־פְּרָ֔ת כָּשְׁל֖וּ וְנָפָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* not let.him.flee the.swift \[one\] and not let.him.escape the warrior northward on the.side of.the.river of.Euphrates they.will.stumble and they.will.fall

*JPS 1917:* The swift cannot flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6578.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6578/): 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).