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To divide

פָּרַטStrong’s H6527

parat (pa-rat)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Parat is the Hebrew word usually translated “those improvise”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;”
Amos 6:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to improvise carelessly, chant, stammermeaning uncertain
How it's translated
  • those improvise 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Amos 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    פָּרַט parat · to divide

    1) (Qal) to improvise carelessly, chant, stammer 1a) meaning uncertain

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    DIVIDE, verb transitive

    [Latin, to part. See the latter words.]

    1. To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces.“DIVIDE the living child in two” 1 Kings 3:25
    2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit.“Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters” Genesis 1:6
    3. To make partition of, among a number.“Ye shall divide the land by lot” Numbers 33:54
    4. To open; to cleave.
    All definitions and other forms of “divide”
    1. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.“There shall be five in one house divided, three against two--” Luke 12:52
    2. To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.“And he divided to them his living” Luke 15:12
    3. To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.
    4. To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.

    DIVIDE, verb intransitive

    1. To part; to open; to cleave.
    2. To break friendship; as, brothers divide
    3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.

    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.