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title: פָּרַק — tear apart · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּרַק (6561), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: tear apart. BDB 1906: vb. tear apart, away. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּרַק

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«פָּרַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tear apart** — 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:** 10 times · **Key:** 6561 · **BDB:** פָּרַק

### Glosses

\[one.who\].tears.away (1); \[was\].tearing.out (1); he (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tear apart [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6561/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. tear apart, away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6561/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tear apart, away (NH remove (load, etc.), Pi. separate, take to pieces; Arabic فَرَقَ split, divide; 𝔏 פְּרַק especially redeem, rescue; Syriac ܦܪܰܩ withdraw (intrans.), also remove, rescue; Ethiopic ፈረቀ set free);— Pf. 2 ms. וּפָרַקְּתָּ֫ Gn 27:40; Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיִּפְרְקֵנוּ ψ 136:24; Pt. act. פֹּרֵק La 5:8 ψ 7:3 tear away yoke from off (מֵעַל) neck Gn 27:10 (J); snatch from (מִן) foes, = rescue (Aramaic) La 5:8 ψ 136:24; so abs. ψ 7:3 (prefixing (וְ)אֵין, 𝔊 𝔖 Che Du We), \> Hup Bae al. snatch away as prey. Impf. 3 ms. יְפָרֵק Zc 11:16 he shall tear off their hoofs; Imv. mpl. פָּֽרְקוּ Ex 32:2 (E) tear off the golden ear-rings; Pt. מְפָרֵק 1 K 19:11 a great wind rending mts. (‖ מְשַׁבֵּר). tear off (for, i.e. from, oneself Ges§ 54 f); Impf. 3 mpl. וַיִּתְפָּֽרְקוּ Ex 32:3 (E), c. acc. אֶת־נִזְמֵי הַוָּהָב; Imv. mpl. הִתְפָּרָ֑קוּ v 24 (E; obj. om.); pass. be broken off, Pf. 3 pl. הִתְפָּֽרְקוּ Ez 19:12 (branches).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פָּרַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6561/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 5:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.5.8/)

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עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* slaves they.have.ruled over us \[one.who\].tears.away there.\[is\].not from hand their

*JPS 1917:* Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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[Psalms 7:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.3/)

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פֶּן־יִטְרֹ֣ף כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י פֹּ֝רֵ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃

*Word for word:* lest he.should.tear.to.pieces like a.lion self my tearing and there.\[is\].not a.deliverer

*JPS 1917:* Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

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