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Be fruitful

פָּרָאStrong’s H6500

para (pa-ra)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Para is the Hebrew word usually translated “flourishes”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.”
Hosea 13:15 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Hiphil) to bear fruit, be fruitful
How it's translated
  • he flourishes 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hosea 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    פָּרָא para · be fruitful

    (Hiphil) to bear fruit, be fruitful Another spelling of pa.rah (פָּרָה "be fruitful" H6509)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “flourish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    FLOURISH, verb intransitive

    flur'ish. [Latin floresco, from floreo. The primary sense is to open, expand, enlarge, or to shoot out, as in glory, Latin ploro.]

    1. To thrive; to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant.
    2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth or honor.“When all the workers of iniquity do flourish” Psalms 92:7
    3. To grow in grace and in good works; to abound in the consolations of religion.“The righteous shall flourish like the palmtree” Psalms 92:12
    4. To be in a prosperous state; to grow or be augmented.
    All definitions and other forms of “flourish”
    1. To use florid language; to make a display of figures and lofty expressions; to be copious and flowery.
    2. To make bold strokes in writing; to make large and irregular lines; as, to flourish with the pen.
    3. To move or play in bold and irregular figures.
    4. In music, to play with bold and irregular notes, or without settled form; as, to flourish on an organ or violin.
    5. To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

    FLOURISH, verb transitive

    flur'ish.

    1. To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with any thing showy.
    2. To spread out; to enlarge into figures.
    3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to move in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish; as, to flourish a sword.
    4. To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
    5. To adorn; to embellish.
    6. To mark with a flourish or irregular stroke.

    FLOURISH, noun

    flur'ish.

    1. Beauty; showy splendor.
    2. Ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as a flourish of rhetoric; a flourish of wit.
    3. Figures formed by bold, irregular lines, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver; as the flourishes about a great letter.
    4. A brandishing; the waving of a weapon or other thing; as the flourish of a sword.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.