פַּרְסָהparçâh
hoof
Pronunciation: par-saw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6541
Meanings
1. of ruminants (Exodus 10:26; Micah 4:13; Ezekiel 32:13)
2. of horses (not divided) (Isaiah 5:28; Ezekiel 26:11; Jeremiah 47:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 21 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 10:26 All our livestock must go with us, too; not a hoof can be left behind. We must choose our sacrifices for the Lord our God from among these animals. And we won’t know how we are to worship the Lord until we get there.”
- Leviticus 11:3 You may eat any animal that has completely split hooves and chews the cud.
- Leviticus 11:4 You may not, however, eat the following animals that have split hooves or that chew the cud, but not both. The camel chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is ceremonially unclean for you.
- Leviticus 11:5 The hyrax chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean.
- Leviticus 11:6 The hare chews the cud but does not have split hooves, so it is unclean.
- Leviticus 11:7 The pig has evenly split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is unclean.
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).