---
title: פְּרָת — Euphrates · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פְּרָת (6578), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 19 times: Euphrates. BDB 1906: n.pr. flum. Euphrates. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6578.html)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [פ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1508-3.md)‎ / פְּרָת‎

<!-- .hw dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
# פְּרָת

<!-- .meta -->
«פְּרָת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Euphrates** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Used:** 19 times · **Key:** 6578 · **BDB:** פְּרָת

### Glosses

of.Euphrates (11); to (3); Euphrates (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Euphrates [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6578/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. flum. Euphrates [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6578/#m2)

<!-- fold -->
**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. flum. Euphrates, Ευφρατης (Assyrian Purattu DlPa 169 ff., whence OPers. Ufrâtu, SpiegAPK 211);—the greatest river of W. Asia; פ׳ Gn 2:14, נְהַר פ׳ 15:18 (both secondary phrases in J), נְהַר פ׳ also 2 S 8:3 (Qr, v. נָהָר), Je 46:2, 6, 10 Dt 1:7; 11:24; Jos 1:4 (D), 2 K 23:29; 24:7; 1 Ch 5:9; 18:3; נהר om. Je 13:4, 5, 6, 7 (where Ew Hi Marti, after SchickZPV iii. 11, think of some other פְּרָת, but Gf Gie and most defend Euphrates), 51:63 2 Ch 35:20 (cf. Gn 2:14 supr.); name not certainly attested before D Je; on earlier הַנָּהָר for this river v. נ׳.

<!-- .note -->
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פְּרָת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6578/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Jeremiah 13:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.5/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וָאֵלֵ֕ךְ וָאֶטְמְנֵ֖הוּ בִּפְרָ֑ת כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אוֹתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and I.went and I hid.it at Perath just as he.had.commanded Yahweh me

*JPS 1917:* So I went, and hid it in Perath, as the LORD commanded me.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div verse -->

<!-- .ref -->
[Jeremiah 46:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.6/)

<!-- .vt dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
אַל־יָנ֣וּס הַקַּ֔ל וְאַל־יִמָּלֵ֖ט הַגִּבּ֑וֹר צָפ֙וֹנָה֙ עַל־יַ֣ד נְהַר־פְּרָ֔ת כָּשְׁל֖וּ וְנָפָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* not let.him.flee the.swift \[one\] and not let.him.escape the warrior northward on the.side of.the.river of.Euphrates they.will.stumble and they.will.fall

*JPS 1917:* The swift cannot flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [פַּרְשַׁנְדָּתָא](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6577.md)
- next →: [פַּרְתְּמִים](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6579.md)
- ↑ back to [פ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1508-3.md)