פְּאֹרָהpᵉʼôrâh
פּאֹרָה: bough (Ezekiel 17:6; Ezekiel 31:5; Ezekiel 31:6; Ezekiel 31:8; Ezekiel 31:12)
Pronunciation: peh-o-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6288
Meanings
פארה: boughs (Isaiah 10:33)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Isaiah 10:33 But look! The Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will chop down the mighty tree of Assyria with great power! He will cut down the proud. That lofty tree will be brought down.
- Ezekiel 17:6 It took root there and grew into a low, spreading vine. Its branches turned up toward the eagle, and its roots grew down into the ground. It produced strong branches and put out shoots.
- Ezekiel 31:5 This great tree towered high, higher than all the other trees around it. It prospered and grew long thick branches because of all the water at its roots.
- Ezekiel 31:6 The birds nested in its branches, and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth. All the great nations of the world lived in its shadow.
- Ezekiel 31:8 No other cedar in the garden of God could rival it. No cypress had branches to equal it; no plane tree had boughs to compare. No tree in the garden of God came close to it in beauty.
- Ezekiel 31:12 A foreign army—the terror of the nations—has cut it down and left it fallen on the ground. Its branches are scattered across the mountains and valleys and ravines of the land. All those who lived in its shadow have gone away and left it lying there.
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).