To tear
פָּרַקStrong’s H6561paraq (pa-raq)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Paraq is the Hebrew word usually translated “tearing”, “tear off” and “tore off from themselves”. It appears in 10 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
- To tear apart or away, tear off, break away(Qal) to tear away, snatch, rescue · (Piel) to tear off · (Hithpael) to tear off from oneself, be broken off, be broken in pieces
How it's translated
- tearing 2
- and you will tear off 1
- tear off 1
- and they tore off from themselves 1
- tear off from yourselves 1
- and he rescued us 1
- rescues 1
- they were torn off 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Lamentations 1
- Ezekiel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
- Exodus 32:2And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
- Exodus 32:3And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
- Exodus 32:24And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
- 1 Kings 19:11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
- Psalms 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּרַק paraq · to tear
1) to tear apart or away, tear off, break away 1a) (Qal) to tear away, snatch, rescue 1b) (Piel) to tear off 1c) (Hithpael) to tear off from oneself, be broken off, be broken in pieces Aramaic equivalent: pe.raq (פְּרַק "to break" H6562)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEAR, noun
- Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.
All definitions and other forms of “tear”
TEAR, verb transitive
[Latin tero.]
- To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh.
- To wound; to lacerate.
- To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.
- To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.
- To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
- To remove by violence; to break up.
- To make a violent rent.
TEAR, verb intransitive
To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.
TEAR, noun
A rent; a fissure. [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.