אֶפְרֹחַ
young one
‘young one’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (40%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (40%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H667 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 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.
אפרח (ʼephrôach) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “young one.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Deuteronomy, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It first appears in Deuteronomy 22:6. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H667 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.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 33%
- Job 1 verse 33%
- Psalms 1 verse 33%
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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 67%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 33%
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: Young 2×
- American Standard Version: Young ones 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Chicks 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Young 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H667 across 4 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 H667 across 4 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H667 across 4 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H667 across 4 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.
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.
- young, young one (of birds)
- young birds
Word origin
[ אֶפְרֹחַ ] n.m. young one, pl. young ones, young, of birds
— 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.
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
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 5 distinct written forms H667 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶפְרֹ֫חֶ֥י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 84:3 | 1 |
| אֶפְרֹחִים֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 22:6 | 1 |
| הָֽ/אֶפְרֹחִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 22:6 | 1 |
| ו/אפרח/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Job 39:30 | 1 |
| וְ/אֶפְרֹחָ֥י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Job 39:30 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H667, 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.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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.
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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.
