פָּרַם
to tear
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6533 appears — 3 distinct verses 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.
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 10:6 תִפְרֹ֨מוּ֙ Qal impf 2mp Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
- Leviticus 13:45 פְרֻמִים֙ Qal ptcp.pass mp "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'
- Leviticus 21:10 יִפְרֹֽם Qal impf 3ms "'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor tear his clothes;
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.
“to tear” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb פרם (pâram). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Leviticus. First canonically at Leviticus 10:6, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6533 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 3 verses 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 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 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: Rend 2×
- American Standard Version: Rend 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Or tear 1×, Tear 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tear 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6533 across 3 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6533 across 3 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 H6533 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6533 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- (Qal) to tear, rend garment, rip
Word origin
[ פָּרַם ] vb. tear, rend garment
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
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.
פָּרַם
- (b. h.) to tear open; to strip. Sot. III, 8 האיש פורע ופוֹרֵם … פורעת ופוֹרֶמֶת the (leprous) man must let his hair grow and tear his garments, but a woman should not &c.; Sifra Thazr. Par. 5, ch. XII; Y. Sot. III, end, 19ᵇ. Hor. III, 5 כהן גדול פורם מלמטה וכ׳ the high priest in mourning tears his lower garments; ib. 12ᵇ אינו פורם … פּוֹרְמִין he does not tear his garments in the manner ordinary people in mourning do; Sifra Emor ch. I, Par. 2; Yoma 73ᵃ; a. fr.—Part. pass. פָּרוּם; f. פְּרוּמָה; pl. פְּרוּמִים, פְּרוּמִין; פְּרוּמוֹת exposed, bare. Gitt. 90ᵇ ופ׳ משני צדדיה bare on both her shoulders; Y. ib. IX, end, 50ᵈ צדדיה פרומין; Y. Sot. I, beg. 16ᵇ מְפוֹרָמִין.
- same. Part. pass. מְפוֹרָם; pl. מְפוֹרָמִין, v. supra.—[Gen. R. s. 22, end כמפרים some ed., v. פָּרַס.]
פְּרַם
- , to cut, split, break into; to chop, hash. Sabb. 74ᵇ האי מאן דפָרֵים סילקא (Var. in Ar. דפָרֵיס) he who minces beets (on the Sabbath). Ber. 39ᵃ פַּרְמִינְהוּ פרימי רברבי Ms. M. (Ar. פירמי, ed. פרימא רבא) if he chopped them into large pieces. M. Kat. 25ᵃ פָּרוּם בבא וכ׳ Ar. (ed. פרוס; Ms. M. 2 פרוץ) they broke through the gate, and carried the body out; a. e.—V. פְּרוֹמָאָה.
- to be cut, chopped. Ḥull. 30ᵇ sq. חזינן גידפי דמִיפַּרְמֵי we see that the feathers (of the throat) are cut through.
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 3 distinct written forms H6533 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יִפְרֹֽם | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Leviticus 21:10 | 1 |
| פְרֻמִים֙ | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 13:45 | 1 |
| תִפְרֹ֨מוּ֙ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural | Leviticus 10:6 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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