פָּרַשׂ paras

Hebrew word for “to spread” · Strong’s H6566 · used 67 times in 66 verses

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Meaning

1) to spread, spread out, stretch, break in pieces;

How it is translated

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

• spread out 19
• will spread out 14
• spreading out 7
• spreads out 4
• will spread 4
• have spread out 2
• has spread out 2
• spread it out 1
• spread out ! 1
• does it spread out? 1
• had spread out 1
• when scatters 1

Where it is used

Also in 10 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 4 (6), 1 Kings 8 (4), 2 Chronicles 6 (3), Lamentations 1 (3), Exodus 9 (2), Ezekiel 17 (2), Exodus 25 (1), Exodus 37 (1), Exodus 40 (1), Deuteronomy 22 (1)

Forms

• ויפרשׂ 8
• ופרשׂו 6
• פרשׂ 6
• יפרשׂ 4
• ופרשׂ 4
• יפרשׂו 3
• ויפרשׂו 3
• פרשׂים 3
• פרשׂתי 3
• ופרשׂתי 3

Words used with it

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

• כַּף kaph “palm” 15
• כָּנָף kanaph “wing” 12
• רֶשֶׁת reshet “net” 9
• כְּרוּב keruv “cherub” 7
• מַעַל maal “above” 6
• תַּחַשׁ tachash “leather” 4
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 7
• בַּד bad “alone” 6
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 6
• עוֹר or “skin” 5
• סָכַךְ sakhakh “to cover” 4
• קָהָל qahal “assembly” 5

Key verses

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

• 1 Kings 8:38 — What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth…
• Psalms 140:5 — The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
• Isaiah 1:15 — And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Isaiah 65:2 — I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
• Jeremiah 4:31 — For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that…
• Lamentations 1:10 — The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command…
• Lamentations 1:13 — From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate…
• Ezekiel 12:13 — My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it,…
• Ezekiel 16:8 — Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I…
• Hosea 5:1 — Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on…
• Joel 2:2 — A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath…
• Zechariah 2:6 — Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.

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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.