Parad means “break through” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6504 פָּרַד (parad) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. parad (paw-rad') v. 1. to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself) [a primitive root] It has 26 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include scattered, separate, they, separated, and part. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
parad (paw-rad') v. 1. to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself) [a primitive root] KJV: disperse, divide, be out of joint, part, scatter (abroad), separate (self), sever self, stretch, sunder.
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to separate
Usage: 1) to separate, divide 1a) (Qal) to divide 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to divide, separate 1b2) to be divided, be separated 1c) (Piel) to be separated 1d) (Pual) to be divided 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to divide, separate 1e2) to make a division, make a separation 1f) (Hithpael) to be divided, be separated, get separated Aramaic equivalent: be.dar (בְּדַר "to scatter" H0921)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render parad, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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26 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6504.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6504, grouped by book.
Parad (Strong's H6504) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "break through". parad (paw-rad') v. 1. to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H6504 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6504 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as scattered, separate, they, separated, part, and parted. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.