Leader
פֶּ֫רַעStrong’s H6546parah (par-ah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Parah is the Hebrew word usually translated “leaders of” and “heads”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.”
Meaning
- Leader, commander
How it's translated
- leaders of 1
- heads 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫רַע parah · leader
leader, commander
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leader” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LE'ADER, noun
- One that leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
- A chief; a commander; a captain.
- One who goes first.
- The chief of a party or faction; as the leader of the whigs or of the tories; a leader of the Jacobins.
All definitions
- a performer who leads a band or choir in music.
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.