Flea
פַּרְעֹשׁStrong’s H6550parosh (par-osh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Parosh is the Hebrew word usually translated “flea”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.”
Meaning
- Flea
How it's translated
- a flea 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
פַּרְעֹשׁ parosh · flea
flea
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flea” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLEA, noun
[See Flee and Fly.]
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.