To divide
פָּרַסStrong’s H6536paras (pa-ras)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Paras is the Hebrew word usually translated “dividing in two”, “it divides in two” and “divides in two”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.”
Meaning
- To divide, break in two(Qal) to break, break up · (Hiphil) to be divided (of hoofs)
How it's translated
- dividing in two 3
- it divides in two 2
- divides in two 1
- and from divide in two 1
- divides 1
- and of those dividing 1
- they divide 1
- dividing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 6
- Deuteronomy 3
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:4Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- Leviticus 11:5And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- Leviticus 11:6And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
- Leviticus 11:7And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:26The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
- Deuteronomy 14:6And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּרַס paras · to divide
1) to divide, break in two 1a) (Qal) to break, break up 1b) (Hiphil) to be divided (of hoofs) Aramaic equivalent: pe.ras (פְּרַס "to divide" H6537A)
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.]
- 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
- 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
- To make partition of, among a number.“Ye shall divide the land by lot” Numbers 33:54
- To open; to cleave.
All definitions and other forms of “divide”
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.“There shall be five in one house divided, three against two--” Luke 12:52
- To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.“And he divided to them his living” Luke 15:12
- To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.
- To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.
DIVIDE, verb intransitive
- To part; to open; to cleave.
- To break friendship; as, brothers divide
- 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.