פָּאַרpâʼar
פָּאַר: Pi`el: beautify, glorify (Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:9; Isaiah 60:7)
Pronunciation: paw-ar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6286
Meanings
Hithpa`el: glorify oneself (Judges 7:2; Isaiah 10:15; Exodus 8:5)
2. get glory to oneself, be glorified, by means of (Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:3; Isaiah 60:21)
פֵּאֵר: Pi`el: go over the boughs (Deuteronomy 24:20)
Same root
- פְּאֹרָהpᵉʼôrâh · H6288properly, ornamentation, i.e. (plural) foliage (including the limbs) as bright green
- פְּאֵרpᵉʼêr · H6287an embellishment, i.e. fancy head-dress
- פָּארוּרpâʼrûwr · H6289properly, illuminated, i.e. a glow; as noun, a flush (of anxiety)
- פָּארָןPâʼrân · H6290Paran, a desert of Arabia
- תִּפְאָרָהtiphʼârâh · H8597ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively)
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 8:9 “You set the time!” Moses replied. “Tell me when you want me to pray for you, your officials, and your people. Then you and your houses will be rid of the frogs. They will remain only in the Nile River.”
- Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from your olive trees, don’t go over the boughs twice. Leave the remaining olives for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.
- Judges 7:2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many warriors with you. If I let all of you fight the Midianites, the Israelites will boast to me that they saved themselves by their own strength.
- Ezra 7:27 Praise the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who made the king want to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem!
- Psalms 149:4 For the Lord delights in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.
- Isaiah 10:15 But can the ax boast greater power than the person who uses it? Is the saw greater than the person who saws? Can a rod strike unless a hand moves it? Can a wooden cane walk by itself?
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).