פַּרְסָה
hoof
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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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 13 times (62%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 6 times (29%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 21 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6541 appears — 16 distinct verses across 8 books. 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.
Exodus 1 verse
Leviticus 6 verses
- Leviticus 11:3 פַּרְסָ֗ה פְּרָסֹ֔ת n c fs n c fp Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
- Leviticus 11:4 הַ/פַּרְסָ֑ה וּ/פַרְסָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs conj + n c fs "'Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:5 וּ/פַרְסָ֖ה conj + n c fs The coney, because he chews the cud but doesn't have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:6 וּ/פַרְסָ֖ה conj + n c fs The hare, because she chews the cud but doesn't part the hoof, she is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:7 פַּרְסָ֜ה פַּרְסָ֔ה n c fs n c fs The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:26 פַּרְסָ֜ה n c fs "'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.
Deuteronomy 3 verses
- Deuteronomy 14:6 פַּרְסָ֗ה פְרָס֔וֹת n c fs n c fp Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
- Deuteronomy 14:7 הַ/פַּרְסָ֖ה וּ/פַרְסָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs conj + n c fs Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
- Deuteronomy 14:8 פַּרְסָ֥ה n c fs The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 26:11 בְּ/פַרְס֣וֹת prep + n c fp cs With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.
- Ezekiel 32:13 וּ/פַרְס֥וֹת conj + n c fp cs I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
Micah 1 verse
Zechariah 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.
פרסה (parçâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “hoof.” It first appears in Exodus 10:26. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 16 verses — uncommon. Leviticus dominates its distribution — 6 of 16 verses. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. 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 H6541 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,462
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,462 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 6 verses 38%
- Deuteronomy 3 verses 19%
- Ezekiel 2 verses 13%
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 16 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 63%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 38%
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: Hoof 11×, Hoofs 4×, Claws 2×
- American Standard Version: Hoof 11×, Hoofs 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hoof 11×, Hooves 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hoof 13×, Hooves 6×, And 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6541 across 19 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6541 across 19 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 H6541 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6541 across 24 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.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. of ruminants Ex 10:26 (E; meton. for animal itself), Mi 4:13 (fig. of Zion), Ez 32:13 Zc 11:16 (fig.); especially שֶׁסַע פ׳ (שְׁתֵּי) Dt 14:6 = Lv 11:3; Lv 11:7, and c. פָּרַס Hiph. (q.v.) v 3 + 10 times Lv 11; Dt 14. e.g. Exodus 10:26
- 2. of horses (not divided) Is 5:28; Ez 26:11 (so 𝔗 𝔖), Je 47:3. e.g. Isaiah 5:28
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. hoof (prob. orig. divided hoof; cf. NöZA i (1886), 417, later of any hoof (v. 2 infr.), even Aramaic of foot-sole of dove 𝔗Onk Gn 8:9, and of men (Je 47:3 +), cf. Nöl.c.);—פ׳ abs. Ex 10:26 +; pl. פְּרָס(וֹ)ת Dt 14:6; Lv 11:3; cstr. id. Is 5:28 +; sf. פַּרְסֹתַיִךְ Mi 4:13, פַּרְסֵיהֶן Zc 11:16;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פרס (pereç) (H6538) — bird of prey.
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.
פַּרְסָה I
- Persian mile (parasang). B. Kam. 82ᵇ; Y. Taan. IV, 68ᶜ; a. fr.—Pl. פַּרְסָאוֹת. Pes. 93ᵇ, sq.; a. e.—[Shebi. V, 1, a. e., v. פַּרְסִי.]
פַּרְסָה II
- split hoof; foot; toes (v. אִסְפֶּירֶס). Ḥull. 59ᵃ, v. פָּרַס I. Ib. 68ᵇ (ref. to בבהמה ‘in the animal, Lev. XI, 3) פ׳ הֶחֱזִיר וכ׳ if the embryo, having put forth its feet, withdrew one foot, you may eat it (when the mother is ritually slaughtered); if it withdraws ‘feet’, you may eat it; a. fr.—Mikv. V, 6 פַּרְסַת החמור וכ׳ the water gathered in the depression created by asses marching in the valley; (Tosef. ib. V, 1 פַּרְסוֹת רגלי בהמה).—Pl. פְּרָסוֹת. Ḥull. l. c. Ib. 59ᵃ פַּרְסוֹתֶיהָ חתוכות its hoofs were cut off. Sifré Deut. 2 אילו זכו … שעלו פַרְסוֹת רגליהם וכ׳ if the Israelites had been good, they would have entered Palestine as soon as their feet had come up from the sea; a. fr.—בית הפ׳ the legs. Ḥull. 55ᵇ; Y. Pes. VII, 35ᵃ bot.; (Ḥull. IX, 2 הפ׳ only). e.g. Leviticus 11:3
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 16 distinct written forms H6541 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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 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
- Exodus 10:26
- Leviticus 11:3
- Deuteronomy 14:6
- Isaiah 5:28
- Jeremiah 47:3
- Ezekiel 26:11
- Micah 4:13
- Zechariah 11:16
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.
