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title: פֶּרַח — bud · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פֶּרַח (6525), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: bud. BDB 1906: n.m. bud, sprout. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פֶּרַח

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«פֶּרַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bud** — 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:** 17 times · **Key:** 6525 · **BDB:** פֶּ֫רַח

### Glosses

a.blossom (4); blossom (4); blossoms (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bud [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6525/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. bud, sprout [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6525/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Na 1:4 bud, sprout;—abs. פ׳ Is 18:5 +, פָּ֑רַח EX 25:33; Ex 37:19; מְּרַחcstr. Na 1:4 +; sf. פִּרְחָהּ Nu 8:4, פִּרְחָם Is 5:24; pl. sf. פְּרָחֶיהָ Ex 25:31 +;—bud, Is 5:24, of vine 18:5 (both fig.), Nu 17:23; פ׳ לְבָנוֹן Na 1:4 the sprout of Lebanon (i.e. of its cedars); of bud-shaped ornament in temple 1 K 7:26 (פ׳ שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן) v 49 = 2 Ch 4:5 (פ׳ שׁוֹשַׁנָּה) v 21; in tabern. Ex 25:31, 33(×2), 34; 37:17, 19(×2), 20 Nu 8:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פֶּרַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6525/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 25:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.34/)

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וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁקָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and \[will be\] on.the.lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

*JPS 1917:* And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.

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[Exodus 37:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.20/)

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וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁ֨קָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

*JPS 1917:* And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;

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