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title: פָּרַט — divide · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּרַט (6527), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: divide. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּרַט

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«פָּרַט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **divide** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6527 · **BDB:** פָּרַט

### Glosses

who\].improvise (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

divide [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6527/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6527/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. very dub., Pt. pl. הַפֹּרְטִים עַל־פִּי הַנָּ֑בֶל Am 6:5 (NH break off, divide, so Syriac ܦܪܰܛ; NH פְּרוּטָה, Aramaic פְּרִיטָא, small coin, change, hence) AW RaAEKi divide words into parts (in singing), AV chant; and Thes scatter (cf. פֶּרֶט) empty words; poss. also would be stammer (of broken speech; said contemptuously):—(Arabic فَرَطَ is precede, act hastily, iv. act extravagantly, talk immoderately (v. further DrAm. 236), hence) AW (as altern.) improvise carelessly, idly.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פָּרַט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6527/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 6:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.5/)

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הַפֹּרְטִ֖ים עַל־פִּ֣י הַנָּ֑בֶל כְּדָוִ֕יד חָשְׁב֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם כְּלֵי־שִֽׁיר׃

*Word for word:* \[those who\].improvise on the.mouth of the.lyre like David they.have.devised for themselves instruments of.song

*JPS 1917:* That thrum on the psaltery, that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David;

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