Heifer
פָּרָהStrong’s H6510parah (pa-rah)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Parah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cows”, “heifer” and “cow his”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.”
Meaning
- Cow, heifer
How it's translated
- the cows 9
- cows 8
- the heifer 4
- a heifer 1
- cow his 1
- and cow 1
- like a heifer 1
- o cows of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 9
- Numbers 5
- 1 Samuel 4
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:2And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
- Genesis 41:3And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
- Genesis 41:4And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
- Genesis 41:18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
- Genesis 41:19And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
- Genesis 41:20And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
Hebrew dictionary
פָּרָה parah · heifer
cow, heifer
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heifer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEIF'ER, noun
hef'er. A young cow.
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.