Hoof
פַּרְסָהStrong’s H6541parsah (par-sah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Parsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hoof”, “hooves” and “hooves of”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.”
Meaning
- Hoofof ruminants · of horses (undivided hooves)
How it's translated
- a hoof 7
- and a hoof 4
- hooves 2
- the hoof 2
- hooves of 2
- with hooves of 1
- and hooves of 1
- and hooves your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 6
- Deuteronomy 3
- Ezekiel 2
- Exodus 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 10:26Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
- Leviticus 11:3Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
פַּרְסָה parsah · hoof
1) hoof 1a) of ruminants 1b) of horses (undivided hooves)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hoof” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOOF, noun
- The horny substance that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, sheep, goats, deer, etc.
- An animal; a beast.
All definitions and other forms of “hoof”
HOOF, verb intransitive
To walk, as cattle. [Little used.]
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.