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פָּארוּר

heat

‘heat’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H6289 Strong's Hebrew
pâʼrûwr Transliteration
/paw-roor'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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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.

The Hebrew noun פארור centers on the idea of “heat.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. Joel dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Joel 2:6. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
blackness
Modern gloss
heat
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H6289 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
Joel 2:6
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Joel 2:6.
Nahum 2:10
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Nahum 2:10.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 2 · 100%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 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: Blackness 2×
  • American Standard Version: Pale 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: not separately translated
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beauty 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H6289 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Blackness” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H6289 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Pale” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Does not render H6289 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 2 tagged occurrences).

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H6289 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Beauty” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses 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.

  1. glow, heat
  2. meaning dubious

Word origin

n.[m.] meaning dub.; only קִבְּצוּ פ׳ Na 2:11 Jo 2:6; Thes, all faces gather a glow (glow with dread, from assumed √ פאר), so We Now; AE Hi al. gather in (their) beauty (√ I. פאר; grow pale); Vrss AV gather blackness (from פָּרוּר a pot!), v. Dr; all very uncertain.

— 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.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TWOT: 1727b


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

*פָּארוּר

  • Parur. Ab. Zar. 31ᵃ Ms. M. (ed. פרוד). [Perh. פַּרְוָאר?]

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6289, 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.

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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