Brood
פִּרְחָחStrong’s H6526pirchach (pir-chach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Pirchach is the Hebrew word usually translated “brood”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.”
Meaning
- Brood
How it's translated
- a brood 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פִּרְחָח pirchach · brood
brood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “brood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BROOD, verb intransitive
- To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them.
- To sit on; to spread over, as with wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss.
- To remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought; to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject; as, the miser broods over his gold.
- To mature any thing with care.
All definitions and other forms of “brood”
BROOD, verb transitive
To sit over, cover and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
- To cherish.
BROOD, noun
Offspring; progeny; formerly used of human beings in elegant works, and we have brother, from this word; but it is now more generally used in contempt.
- A hatch; the young birds hatched at once; as a brood of chickens or of ducks.
- That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced.
- The act of covering the eggs, or of brooding. [Unusual.]
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.