פָּרַר parar

Hebrew word for “to break” · Strong’s H6565 · used 50 times in 46 verses

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Meaning

1) to break, frustrate;

Senses in the lexicon

• to break (47)
• to split (3)

How it is translated

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

• break 8
• will break 8
• has broken 3
• broke 3
• actually 2
• frustrate 2
• who frustrates 2
• have broken 2
• breaking 2
• will frustrate 1
• break ! 1
• had frustrated 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 30 (4), Ezekiel 17 (3), Zechariah 11 (3), Leviticus 26 (2), Deuteronomy 31 (2), Isaiah 24 (2), Jeremiah 33 (2), Genesis 17 (1), Numbers 15 (1), Judges 2 (1)

Forms

• הפר 8
• להפר 7
• והפר 5
• תפר 4
• הפרו 4
• יפר 3
• ותפר 3
• מפר 2
• להפרכם 1
• הפרם 1

Words used with it

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

• בְּרִית berit “covenant” 21
• אֵת et “with” 12
• עֵצָה etsah “counsel” 5
• כָּרַת karat “to cut” 6
• בָּזָה bazah “to despise” 4
• אָב av “father” 8
• אִם im “if” 7
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 7
• קוּם qum “to arise” 6
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 6
• נָאַץ naats “to spurn” 3
• אָלָה alah “oath” 3

Key verses

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

• Deuteronomy 31:16 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the…
• Judges 2:1 — And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your…
• 2 Samuel 17:14 — And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat…
• Job 5:12 — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
• Job 40:8 — Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
• Isaiah 8:10 — Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Isaiah 24:5 — The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
• Isaiah 44:25 — That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
• Jeremiah 14:21 — Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
• Jeremiah 31:32 — Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant…
• Ezekiel 17:15 — But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that…
• Ezekiel 44:7 — In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house,…

See all 46 verses in the Word Atlas

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.