פָּרָא
to bear fruit
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6500 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Hosea 1 verse
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.
פרא (pârâʼ) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to bear fruit.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Hosea dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Hosea 13:15. Sharing its root, it stands alongside פרא. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6500 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hosea 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 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: He be fruitful 1×
- American Standard Version: He be fruitful 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Flourishes 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He bears fruit 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6500 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6500 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6500 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6500 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- (Hiphil) to bear fruit, be fruitful
Word origin
Origin: a primitive root
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.
פרא
- , Ab. Zar. 40ᵃ Ar., v. ארא
פְּרָא
- to run, v. פְּרֵי.
פֶּרֶא
- preced.)
- 1. wild ass. Deut. R. s. 5 (ref. to Jer. II, 24) כשם שהפ׳ גדל וכ׳ (some ed. שהעָרֹד) as the wild ass is raised in the desert and is without fear of man, so did I intend that no fear of governments should rest upon you; (Yalk. Jer. 266 עָרוֹד). e.g. Jeremiah 2:24
- 2. savage, cruel. Gen. R. s. 45 (ref. to Gen. XVI, 12) פ׳ אדם וודאי וכ׳ ‘a savage among men’ in its literal sense, for all other plunder goods, but he (Edom-Rome) captures souls. e.g. Genesis 16:12
פָּרָא I
- , pl. (פְּרָא) פָּרַיָּיא [runners,] children of six or seven years of age. Y. Gitt. V, 47ᵇ bot., v. אִפְיוֹטוֹת.
פָּרָא II
- (פְּרַר; cmp. נַכֵּי) less. Gen. R. s. 20, end לפום חילך אכול ופ׳ מן מה דאת לביש וכ׳ spend according to thy means on eating, but less on clothing, and more on dwelling. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 43ᵈ bot. תבר כולהון פ׳ חד he broke all of them save one. Y. Erub. II, 20ᵇ חמשא אלפין פ׳ מאת (read מאה) five thousand minus one hundred. Y. Keth. VI, 30ᵈ bot. תרין חולקין פ׳ ציבחד a little less than two thirds. Ruth R. to III, 3 [read:] זרעה ואעל ועבדת פ׳ ממאה אמר ליה לא אמר מרי דהיא עבד׳ מאה כורין א"ל אין א"ל זרעית ואעלית ועבדת פ׳ ממאה אמר לו הן וכ׳ he sowed and harvested, and it brought less than one hundred kor. Said he to him, did you not say it brought one hundred kor? Said he, yes. Said he to him, I sowed and harvested, and it brought less than one hundred &c.; [perh. to be read פָּרֵי ממאה]. Y. Meg. II, beg. 73ᵃ (expl. סירוסים) חד פָּרָה חד (he reads) one verse less one, i.e. every other verse.
פָּרָא III
- (παρά) with, for. Y. R. Hash. I, 57ᵃ bot., v. אַגְרָפוֹס.—[פרא in compounds often separated, as פ׳ כורין פ׳ פורנון, v. פָּרָאכוֹרִין, פָּרָאפוֹרְנוֹן &c.]
פְּרֵי
- 1. to increase, grow. B. Bath. 18ᵇ הדר פָּארֵי it will grow again; ib. 19ᵃ top.
- 2. (cmp. פרח) to run. Lam. R. to III, 7 ערקת תורתיה ופרא בתרה Ar. (ed. נפק) his cow ran off, and he ran after her. Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᶜ bot. חויא פָרֵי בתרך a serpent is running after thee. Y. Maas. Sh. V, 56ᵃ top הוות פַּרְיָא והוה פרי וכ׳ she (the cow) ran, and he ran after her &c.; a. fr.
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 H6500, 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.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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