פָּרַחpârach

פָּרַח: bud, sprout, shoot

Pronunciation: paw-rakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6524

Meanings

Qal: bud, sprout, send out shoots (Ezekiel 7:10; Hosea 14:6; Isaiah 66:14)

Hiph`il

1. cause to bud or sprout (Ezekiel 17:24; Isaiah 17:11)

2. shew buds, sprouts (Job 14:9; Psalms 92:14; Proverbs 14:11)

פָּרַח: break out, of leprosy and like eruptions

פָּרַח: fly

Qal: for, flying things (Ezekiel 13:20)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 36 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 40:10 The vine had three branches that began to bud and blossom, and soon it produced clusters of ripe grapes.
  • Exodus 9:9 The ashes will spread like fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, causing festering boils to break out on people and animals throughout the land.”
  • Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from a brick kiln and went and stood before Pharaoh. As Pharaoh watched, Moses threw the soot into the air, and boils broke out on people and animals alike.
  • Leviticus 13:12 “Now suppose the disease has spread all over the person’s skin, covering the body from head to foot.
  • Leviticus 13:20 If the priest examines it and finds it to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair in the affected area has turned white, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. The boil has become a serious skin disease.
  • Leviticus 13:25 the priest must examine it. If he finds that the hair in the affected area has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin-deep, a skin disease has broken out in the burn. The priest must then pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, for it is clearly a serious skin disease.
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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).