פָּרָה parah

Hebrew word for “heifer” · Strong’s H6510 · used 26 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

cow, heifer

How it is translated

Glosses given for parah in context, with how often each is used:

• cows 18
• heifer 5
• cow 2
• like a heifer 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 41 (8), Numbers 19 (5), 1 Samuel 6 (4), Genesis 32 (1), Job 21 (1), Isaiah 11 (1), Hosea 4 (1), Amos 4 (1)

Forms

• הפרות 9
• פרות 8
• הפרה 4
• פרת 1
• פרה 1
• פרתו 1
• ופרה 1
• כפרה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with parah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 8
• בָּרִיא bari “fat” 4
• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 6
• רַק raq “thin” 3
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 8
• עֲגָלָה agalah “cart” 3
• רָעָה raah “to pasture” 4
• יָפֶה yapheh “beautiful” 3
• יְאֹר yeor “Nile” 3
• רַע ra “bad” 5
• אָחוּ achu “meadow” 2
• אַחַר achar “after” 5

Key verses

The verses using parah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 41:26 — The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
• Numbers 19:2 — This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot,…
• Numbers 19:5 — And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
• Numbers 19:6 — And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
• Numbers 19:9 — And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation…
• Numbers 19:10 — And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the…
• 1 Samuel 6:7 — Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
• 1 Samuel 6:12 — And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to…
• 1 Samuel 6:14 — And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered…
• Job 21:10 — Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
• Hosea 4:16 — For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
• Amos 4:1 — Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.