פֹּארָה
branch
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
5 verses where H6288 appears in the Construct state in the Book of Ezekiel. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 31:5 פארת/ו פֹארֹתָ֛י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
- Ezekiel 31:6 פֹּֽארֹתָי/ו֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.
- Ezekiel 31:8 כְּ/פֹֽארֹתָ֑י/ו prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
- Ezekiel 31:12 פֹֽארֹתָי/ו֙ n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
- Ezekiel 31:13 פֹּארֹתָ֣י/ו n c fp cs + sfx pers 3ms On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, פארה (pᵉʼôrâh) means “branch.” The word gravitates to Ezekiel (86%), then Isaiah. It turns up in 7 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Isaiah 10:33. It shares a root with פאר, פאר and פארור. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6288 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bough 1×, Boughs 1×, Branches 1×
- American Standard Version: Boughs 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Boughs 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Boughs 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6288 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6288 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6288 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6288 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- bough, branch, shoot
Word origin
n.f. bough;—pl., all in fig.: of vine, abs. פֹּארֹת Ez 17:6 (Baer פֹּרֹאות); of cedar, sf. פֹּארֹתוֹ 31:5 (Kt; יו—ָ Qr); פֹּארֹתָיו v 6, פֹּרֹאתָיו v 8, 12, 13.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פאר (pâʼar) (H6286) — to glorify.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H6288 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּ/פֹֽארֹתָ֑י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 31:8 | 1 |
| פֹֽארֹתָי/ו֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 31:12 | 1 |
| פֹארֹתָ֛י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 31:5 | 1 |
| פֹּֽארֹתָי/ו֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 31:6 | 1 |
| פֹּארֹתָ֣י/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 31:13 | 1 |
| פֹּארֽוֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 17:6 | 1 |
| פֻּארָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 10:33 | 1 |
| פארת/ו | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 31:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6288, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
