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To divide

פְּרַסStrong’s H6537

peras (pe-ras)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Peras is the Aramaic word usually translated “pharsin”, “peres” and “it has been broken in two”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.”
Daniel 5:25 KJV
Meaning
  1. V
  2. Half-mina, half-shekela unit of measure and weight
How it's translated
  • and pharsin 1
  • peres 1
  • it has been broken in two 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 2

1 book in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

פְּרַס peras · to divide

v (P'al) to break in two, divide Aramaic of pa.ras (פָּרַס "to divide" H6536)

פְּרֵס peres · half

1) half-mina, half-shekel 1a) a unit of measure and weight

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.