Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
hoof
Usage: 1) hoof 1a) of ruminants 1b) of horses (undivided hooves)
Parcah means “claw” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6541 פַּרְסָ֔ה is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. parcah (par-saw') n-f. 1. a claw or split hoof [feminine of H6538] It has 16 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include hoof, hoofs, and claws. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
parcah (par-saw') n-f. 1. a claw or split hoof [feminine of H6538] KJV: claw, (cloven-)footed, hoof. Root(s): H6538
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hoof
Usage: 1) hoof 1a) of ruminants 1b) of horses (undivided hooves)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's H6541, 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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16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6541.
Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6541, grouped by book.
Parcah (Strong's H6541) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "claw". parcah (par-saw') n-f. 1. a claw or split hoof [feminine of H6538]
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H6541 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6541 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hoof, hoofs, and claws. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.