פֶּ֫רַח
sprout
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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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6525 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 5:24 וּ/פִרְחָ֖/ם conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 18:5 פֶּ֔רַח n c ms For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
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.
פרח (perach) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “sprout.” The King James Version usually renders it “flowers,” while modern versions prefer “petals” (Berean Standard Bible) and “blossom” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. With 15 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Exodus, which alone accounts for 40% of its uses. Debuting at Exodus 25:31, it then recurs through the corpus. 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 H6525 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,671
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
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 15 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 53%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 13%
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: Flowers 8×, Flower 5×
- American Standard Version: Flower 5×, Flowers 4×, Thereof 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Petals 6×, Blossom 3×, Blossoms 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Blossom 9×, Blossoms 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6525 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6525 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6525 across 15 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6525 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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.
- bud, sprout
Word origin
פֶּ֫רַח n.m. bud, sprout
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פרח (pârach) (H6524) — to sprout.
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.
פָּרַח
- (b. h.) [to break through,]
- 1. to bloom, sprout. Ber. 47ᵇ, sq. קטן פּוֹרֵחַ a boy developing signs of puberty (before the usual age). Num. R. s. 18, end ומעצמו פ׳ and it (the staff) blossomed of itself (without being planted); a. fr.—Esp. (with ref. to Lev. XIII, 12) to become white, spread all over. Neg. VIII, 1 הפורח מן הטמא טהור a leprosy that ‘blossoms’ after the person has been declared unclean, is clean. Ib. 2 פָּרְחָה בכולו if it spread over the entire body. Ib. VII, 5 עד שתִּפְרַח בכולו until it spreads over &c.; a. fr.—2) to fly, fly off; to swim. Kinn. II, 1, sq. B. Mets. I, 4 גוזלות שלא פרחו unfledged pigeons. Ḥull. III, 7, v. סְנַפִּיר. Y. Taan. IV, 68ᶜ top הלוחות היו מבקשין לִפְרוֹחַ the tablets wanted to fly (off Moses’ hands); הכתב עצמו פ׳ only the letters flew off; כיון שפ׳ הכתב וכ׳ when the letters had flown off, the tablets became too heavy for Moses’ hands. Ab. Zar. 18ᵃ (of a martyr dying on the pyre) גוילין … פּוֹרְחוֹת I see the sheets of the book of the Law burn, and the letters fly off. Ḥag. 15ᵇ; Snh. 106ᵇ מגדל הפורח באויר, v. מִגְדָּל. Ḥag. I, 8 פּוֹרְחִין באויר, v. הֶיתֵּר; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 93, a. e. פָּרְחָה נשמתן their soul fled, i.e. they were shocked by surprise, fear &c. e.g. Leviticus 13:12
- 1. to bloom, blossom. Num. R. l. c. וה׳ בו בלילה וכ׳ the same night it blossomed and brought forth fruit; Tanḥ. Aḥăré 8 הִפְרִיחוּ ועשו פירות. Lev. R. s. 23; Cant. R. to II, 2 מַפְרחַת, v. כָּמַשׁ; a. fr.
- 2. to cause sprouting, produce. Gen. R. s. 37 אתמול מַפְרִיחַ מצות וכ׳ yesterday producing meritorious and noble deeds, and to-day so selfish!, v. כָּנַן; Yalk. ib. 62; Yalk. Ps. 832.
- 3. to be able to fly, be fledged. Ḥull. XII, 3 (140ᵇ) אפרוחים מַפְרִיחִין full-fledged birds; Ḥull. 141ᵃ. B. Mets. l. c.; a. fr.
- 4. to cause to fly; to chase. Snh. III, 3 מַפְרִיחֵי יונים, v. יוֹנָה II. Gen. R. s. 67; Yalk. Prov. 950 ומַפְרִיחָן and let them fly off, v. סִכְסֵךְ I. Y. Yoma II, 39ᶜ top הִפְרִיחָתוֹ הרוח the wind drove it off (the altar). Y. Erub. I, 19ᵇ bot. ובאת הרוח והִפְרִיחָתָהּ and a wind came and carried it (the Succah) off; a. fr.
- 5. to place beyond due limits, to cause to protrude. B. Kam. 29ᵇ, sq. לא שנו אלא (ב)מַפְרִיחַ this has been taught (that he is responsible for damage) only when he places the thorns on his ground so that they protrude into the public road, opp. מצמצם when he puts them exactly where his limits end. Tosef. ib. II, 5 המפריח גדירו … לרשות הרבים he who causes his fence of thorns or stones to protrude into the public road.
פְּרַח I
- 1. to bloom. [Targ. Y. Gen. XXX, 37 דפָרַח לבן, prob. name of a tree; h. text לבנה; cmp. פֶּרַח.]
- 2. to move swiftly, fly, swim, run. Targ. O. Gen. I, 21. Targ. Y. Deut. XIV, 9 (ed. Amst. למַפְ׳, Af.). Ib. 19; a. fr.—Yalk. Deut. 938, a. e., v. זַחֲלָא. Keth. 105ᵇ, v. גַּדְפָא. Gen. R. s. 22 דין אמר חלוץ ודין אמר פרח the one (Abel) said, take thy dress off (the wool is mine), and the other (Cain) said, fly in the air (the earth is mine). Koh. R. to I, 8 והיה פ׳ ואינון פָּרְחִין בתריה he ran, and they ran after him; a. fr.
- 3. to palpitate. Gitt. 69ᵇ כל שכן דפ׳ ליביה his heart will palpitate still more.
- 4. to cause to flee, keep off. Pes. 111ᵇ פִּירְחִי נפשיך וכ׳ keep thyself off the service-tree.
- to cause to fly, carry off. Ib. 110ᵇ top (in an incantation) פָּרְחֵיה זיקא וכ׳ Ms. M. a. Rashi (ed. פרח׳) let the wind carry off &c.; ib.ᵃ bot. פ׳ פרחייכי, v. פִּרְחָא.
- 1. to produce blossoms, to bloom. Targ. Gen. XL, 10. Targ. Y. II, Num. XVII, 23; a. e.
- 2. to fly, v. supra.
- 3. to cause to fly, carry; to chase off. Targ. O. Gen. XV, 11 (ed. Berl. ואָתֵיב, v. Berl. Targ. O. II, p. 6). Targ. Num. XI, 31 (not וְאֶפְ׳; h. text ויגז). Targ. Is. XXVIII, 28. Targ. Prov. VII, 23 (h. text יפלח); a. fr.—Midr. Sam. ch. XXIII (expl. ויעט, I Sam. XXV, 14) אַפְרְחִין במילין he chased them off with (harsh) words; Y. Snh. II, 20ᵇ top אפחין (corr. acc.). Shebu. 30ᵇ אַפְרַח עלי בר וכ׳ let a duck fly over me; a. e.—Y. Sot. III, beg. 18ᶜ [read:] חמי היך אַפְרְחִית הדין דידך see how I make this thy argument fly off (I refute it). e.g. 1 Samuel 25:14
פֶּרַח
- preced.)
- 1. blossom, flower, an ornament in the shape of a flower. Gen. R. s. 91, end, v. כַּפְתּוֹר. Kel. XI, 7 הפ׳ והבסיס the calyx of a candlestick and the shaft. Esth. R. to I, 6 אני ישנתי על פִּרְחוֹ של וכ׳ I slept on the flower (capital) of one of those columns, and there was room for a body at full length, with outstretched hands and feet. Men. 28ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. פְּרָחִים. Ib. פְּרָחֶיהָ … כמין פִּרְחֵי וכ׳ what did the flowers of the candlestick look like? Like the blossoms on the capitals of columns; a. e.
- 2. פ׳ לבן White Blossom, name of an aromatic shrub. Deut. R. s. 6, beg. פ׳ לבן הוא שכרו וכ׳ this is a White Blossom, the wages for working at it are half a goldpiece. Y. Shebi. VII, beg. 37ᵇ; Tosef. ib. V, 7 פ׳ לבין ed. Zuck. (Var. פרחבלין, פרחבינ׳, פרחביל׳, corr. acc.).
- 3. youth. — Pl. as ab. Midd. I, 8, a. fr. פִּרְחֵי כהונה, v. כְּהוּנָּה.
- 4. young chicken. —Pl. as ab. Keth. 59ᵇ Ar. (ed. אפרוחים). Y. Ab. Zar. III, 42ᵈ top (expl. סכות בנות, II Kings XVII, 30) תרנגולתא ופְרָחֶיהָ a hen with her chickens. e.g. 2 Kings 17:30
פְּרַח II
- 1. flower. Targ. Y. Gen. XXX, 37 (v. פְּרַח I). [Targ. Job XX, 3, v. פּוּחָא.]—Esp. caper-blossom, also caper-tree. Ber. 40ᵇ (expl. נצפה) פרחה (Ms. F. פירחא). Ib. 36ᵃ אדעתא דפ׳ for the sake of the caper. Ib. 36ᵇ, v. בּוּטִּיתָא; a. e.—Pl. פִּרְחֵי. Pes. 111ᵇ טולי בי פ׳ רוחי (the demons dwelling in) the shade of caper-trees are named ruḥé
- 2. a species of locusts. Targ. Joel I, 4 (h. text ילק).
- 3. palpitation of the heart. Gitt. 69ᵇ
- 4. *that which is blown off, particle, crumb. — Pl. פִּרְחַיָּיא. Pes. 110ᵃ bot. (in an incantation) פרח פִּרְחַיְיכִי let the wind carry off your crumbs (with which you conjure; v., however, Rashi a. l.).
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H6525 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/הַ/פֶּ֧רַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:49 | 2 |
| וָ/פֶרַח֒ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 25:33 | 2 |
| וָ/פָ֑רַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 25:33 | 2 |
| וּ/פְרָחֶ֖י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 25:31 | 2 |
| וּ/פְרָחֶֽי/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 25:34 | 2 |
| וּ/פִרְחָ֖/ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 5:24 | 1 |
| וּ/פֶ֥רַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Nahum 1:4 | 1 |
| פֶ֨רַח֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 17:8 | 1 |
| פִּרְחָ֖/הּ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Numbers 8:4 | 1 |
| פֶּ֔רַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 18:5 | 1 |
| פֶּ֖רַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 2 Chronicles 4:5 | 1 |
| פֶּ֣רַח | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 1 Kings 7:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 15 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 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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