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title: פָּרָה — bear fruit · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּרָה (6509), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 29 times: bear fruit. BDB 1906: vb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּרָה

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«פָּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bear fruit** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 29 times · **Key:** 6509 · **BDB:** פָּרָה

### Glosses

be.fruitful (5); I.will.make.fruitful (3); they.will.be.fruitful (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bear fruit [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6509/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6509/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bear fruit, be fruitful (NH = BH 1, פְּרִי = BH; Ph. פר fruit; Ethiopic ፈርየ: ፈረየ: blossom, bear fruit; Assyrian pirʾu, posterity; cf. also 𝔗 פֵּירָא, Syriac ܦܶܐܪܳܐ fruit, and BaZMG xii (1887), 604);— Pf. 3 pl. פָּרוּ Ex 1:7; 1 pl. consec. וּפָרִינוּ Gn 26:22, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִפְרֶה Is 11:1, etc.; Imv. ms. פְּרֵה Gn 35:11, mpl. פְּרוּ 1:22 +; Pt. act. פֹּרֶה Dt 29:17, f. פֹּרִיָּה Ez 19:10 Is 17:6, פֹּרָת (Ges§ 80 g; for \*פֹּרַיַת LagBN 81) Gn 49:22(×2);— of men and animals, Ex 23:30 (E) Gn 26:22 (J); especially + רבה Je 3:16; 23:3 Ez 36:11; Gn 35:11; 47:27 (P), and שָׁרַץ (P) Gn 8:17; 9:7; Ex 1:7, פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ וגו׳ Gn 1:22, 28; 9:1. of vine, גֶּפֶן פֹּרִיָּה Is 32:12 fruitful vine, so ψ 128:3 (sim. of wife); cf. (in fig. of Isr.) Ez 19:10; in Mess. prediction Is 11:1 a shoot from his \[Jesse’s\] roots shall bear fruit; c. acc. שֹׁרֶשׁ פ׳ רֹאשׁ fig., Dt 29:17 a root bearing gall (as its fruit); יִפְרוּ יֶשַׁע Is 45:8 is dub., read perhaps 3 fs. תֵּפֶר let earth be fruitful in salvation (Oort al.); Pt. f., as subst., הַפֹּרִיָּה the fruit-bearer, poet. for tree, Is 17:6 (cf. \[סָעִיף\] 2); so בֵּן פֹּרָת Gn 49:22(×2) Joseph is son of a fruit-bearer, i.e. a fruitful bough. 1. cause to bear fruit, 2. make fruitful, subj. י׳, c. acc. of man or people: Pf. 3 ms. sf. הִפְרַנִי Gn 41:52 (E). in P, וְהִפְרֵתִ֫י Gn 17:6, 20 (-רֵיתֵ֫י), + הִרְבָּה Lv 26:9 (H); Impf. 3 ms. juss. יַפְרְךָ וְיַרְבְּךָ Gn 28:3, וַיֶּפֶר ψ 105:24; Pt. הִנְנִי מַפְרְךָ וְהִרְבִּיתִךָ Gn 48:4 shew fruitfulness, bear fruit (Ges§ 53 c, d, g): Impf. 3 ms. יַפְרִיא Ho 13:15 (as if from פרא).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פָּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6509/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 32:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.12/)

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עַל־שָׁדַ֖יִם סֹֽפְדִ֑ים עַל־שְׂדֵי־חֶ֕מֶד עַל־גֶּ֖פֶן פֹּרִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* on breasts mourning on fields of.desire on vine\[s\] fruitful

*JPS 1917:* Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;

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[Genesis 49:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.22/)

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בֵּ֤ן פֹּרָת֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף בֵּ֥ן פֹּרָ֖ת עֲלֵי־עָ֑יִן בָּנ֕וֹת צָעֲדָ֖ה עֲלֵי־שֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.son of.a.fruit-bearer Joseph a.son of.a.fruit-bearer at a.spring daughters she.will.climb over a.wall

*JPS 1917:* Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.

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