פָּרַרpârar
פָּרַר: Hiph`il: break, frustrate (Isaiah 33:8; Genesis 17:14; Numbers 15:31)
Pronunciation: paw-rar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6565
Meanings
1. break, violate
a. of ׳ י (Judges 2:1; Jeremiah 14:21; Leviticus 26:44)
b. of men violating covenant with ׳ י (Jeremiah 11:10; Jeremiah 31:32; Deuteronomy 31:16)
c. of men breaking compact, league (with men) (Isaiah 33:8; 1 Kings 15:19; 2 Chronicles 16:3)
d. of destroying the אַחֲוָה between Judah and Israel (Zechariah 11:14)
e. of breaking ׳ י's מִצְוָה (Numbers 15:31; Ezra 9:14; Psalms 119:126)
2. frustrate, make ineffectual
a. counsel (2 Samuel 15:34; 2 Samuel 17:14; Ezra 4:5)
b. make vow (נֶדֶר) ineffectual, annul it (Numbers 30:9; Numbers 30:14; Numbers 30:13)
c. of annulling (godly) fear (Job 15:4; Psalms 89:34; Psalms 85:4)
d. dubious (Ecclesiastes 12:5)
Hoph`al
1. be frustratred (Isaiah 8:10)
2. be broken (Jeremiah 33:21; Zechariah 11:11; Isaiah 28:18)
Pilpel: shattered (Job 16:12)
פָּרַר: split, divide
Qal: split or cracked through is the earth (Isaiah 24:19)
Po`êl: thou, didst divide (Psalms 74:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 50 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 17:14 Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”
- Leviticus 26:15 and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,
- Leviticus 26:44 “But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the Lord their God.
- Numbers 15:31 Since they have treated the Lord’s word with contempt and deliberately disobeyed his command, they must be completely cut off and suffer the punishment for their guilt.”
- Numbers 30:8 But if her husband refuses to accept her vow or impulsive pledge on the day he hears of it, he nullifies her commitments, and the Lord will forgive her.
- Numbers 30:12 But if her husband refuses to accept it on the day he hears of it, her vow or pledge will be nullified, and the Lord will forgive her.
See every passage
- Genesis 17:14
- Leviticus 26:15, 26:44
- Numbers 15:31, 30:8, 30:12, 30:13, 30:15
- Deuteronomy 31:16, 31:20
- Judges 2:1
- 2 Samuel 15:34, 17:14
- 1 Kings 15:19
- 2 Chronicles 16:3
- Ezra 4:5, 9:14
- Nehemiah 4:15
- Job 5:12, 15:4, 16:12, 40:8
- Psalms 74:13, 85:4, 119:126
- Proverbs 15:22
- Ecclesiastes 12:5
- Isaiah 8:10, 14:27, 24:5, 24:19, 33:8, 44:25
- Jeremiah 11:10, 14:21, 31:32, 33:20, 33:21
- Ezekiel 16:59, 17:15, 17:16, 17:18, 44:7
- Zechariah 11:10, 11:11, 11:14
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).