To sprout
פָּרַחStrong’s H6524parach (pa-rach)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Parach is the Hebrew word usually translated “breaking out”, “it has broken out” and “it will bud”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:”
Meaning
- To bud, sprout, shoot, bloom(Qal) to bud, sprout, send out shoots, blossom · (Hiphil)
- (Qal) to break out (of leprosy)
- (Qal) to fly (Aramaism)
How it's translated
- breaking out 4
- it has broken out 3
- it will bud 2
- he will flourish 2
- it has budded 2
- for birds 2
- when budding 1
- certainly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 7
- Isaiah 5
- Psalms 4
- Ezekiel 3
- Hosea 3
- Exodus 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 9:9And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 9:10And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
- Leviticus 13:12And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
- Leviticus 13:20And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
- Leviticus 13:25Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
- Leviticus 13:39Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּרַח parach · to sprout
1) to bud, sprout, shoot, bloom 1a) (Qal) to bud, sprout, send out shoots, blossom 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to bud or sprout 1b2) to show buds or sprouts
פָּרַח parach · to break out
(Qal) to break out (of leprosy)
פָּרַח parach · to fly
(Qal) to fly (Aramaism)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sprout” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPROUT, verb intransitive
[G.]
- To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots.
- To shoot into ramifications.
- To grow, like shoots of plants.
All definitions and other forms of “sprout”
SPROUT, noun
- The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed or from the stump or from the root of a plant or tree.
- A shoot from the end of a branch.
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.