פָּרַשׂpâras

spread out, spread

Pronunciation: paw-ras' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6566

Meanings

Qal: active, passive (Lamentations 1:10; Job 11:13; Ruth 3:9)

1. spread out (Judges 8:25; Deuteronomy 22:17; Deuteronomy 32:11)

2. spread (2 Samuel 17:19; 2 Kings 8:15; Ruth 3:9)

Niph`al: be scattered (Ezekiel 17:21; Ezekiel 34:12)

Pi`el

1. spread out

b. spread out (Isaiah 25:11)

2. = scatter, (?) (Zechariah 2:10; Psalms 68:15)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 67 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 9:29 “All right,” Moses replied. “As soon as I leave the city, I will lift my hands and pray to the Lord. Then the thunder and hail will stop, and you will know that the earth belongs to the Lord.
  • Exodus 9:33 So Moses left Pharaoh’s court and went out of the city. When he lifted his hands to the Lord, the thunder and hail stopped, and the downpour ceased.
  • Exodus 25:20 The cherubim will face each other and look down on the atonement cover. With their wings spread above it, they will protect it.
  • Exodus 37:9 The cherubim faced each other and looked down on the atonement cover. With their wings spread above it, they protected it.
  • Exodus 40:19 Then he spread the coverings over the Tabernacle framework and put on the protective layers, just as the Lord had commanded him.
  • Numbers 4:6 Then they must cover the inner curtain with fine goatskin leather and spread over that a single piece of blue cloth. Finally, they must put the carrying poles of the Ark in place.
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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).