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title: פֶּרַע — long hair · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פֶּרַע (6545), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: long hair. BDB 1906: long hair locks. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פֶּרַע

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«פֶּרַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **long hair** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 6545 · **BDB:** פֶּ֫רַע²

### Glosses

hair (1); the.lock\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

long hair [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6545/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

long hair locks [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6545/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] long hair of head, locks;—פ׳ abs. Ez 44:20; cstr. פ׳ שְׂעַר רֹאשׁוֹ Nu 6:5 (P).—Ju 5:2 Dt 32:42, v. i. פֶּרַע.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פֶּרַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6545/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 44:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.20/)

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וְרֹאשָׁם֙ לֹ֣א יְגַלֵּ֔חוּ וּפֶ֖רַע לֹ֣א יְשַׁלֵּ֑חוּ כָּס֥וֹם יִכְסְמ֖וּ אֶת־רָאשֵׁיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and head their not they.will.shave and hair not they.will.let.loose surely.(trim) they.will.trim (et) heads their

*JPS 1917:* Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

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[Numbers 6:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.6.5/)

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כָּל־יְמֵי֙ נֶ֣דֶר נִזְר֔וֹ תַּ֖עַר לֹא־יַעֲבֹ֣ר עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ עַד־מְלֹ֨את הַיָּמִ֜ם אֲשֶׁר־יַזִּ֤יר לַיהוָה֙ קָדֹ֣שׁ יִהְיֶ֔ה גַּדֵּ֥ל פֶּ֖רַע שְׂעַ֥ר רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* all the.days of.the.vow his.consecration his a.razor not it.will.pass over head his until are.completed the days which he.will.be.a.Nazirite to Yahweh holy he.will.be he.will.make.grow the.lock\[s\] of.the.hair his.head his

*JPS 1917:* All the days of his vow of Naziriteship there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

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