Declaration
פָּרָשָׁהStrong’s H6575parashah (pa-ra-shah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Parashah is the Hebrew word usually translated “exact amount of” and “full account of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.”
Meaning
- Exact statement, declaration
How it's translated
- exact amount of 1
- and full account of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
פָּרָשָׁה parashah · declaration
exact statement, declaration
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “declaration” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DECLARA'TION, noun
- An affirmation; an open expression of facts or opinions; verbal utterance; as, he declared his sentiments, and I rely on his declaration
- Expression of facts, opinions, promises, predictions, etc., in writings; records or reports of what has been declared or uttered.
- Publication; manifestation; as the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai. Esther 10:2
- A public annunciation; proclamation; as the declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
All definitions
- In law, that part of the process or pleadings in which the plaintiff sets forth at large his cause of complaint; the narration or count.
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.