Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to lead
Usage: to lead, act as leader
Para means “loosen” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6544 פָּרַע (para`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. para` (paw-rah') v. 1. to loosen 2. (by implication) to expose, dismiss It has 15 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include let, bare, avoid, and go. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
para` (paw-rah') v. 1. to loosen 2. (by implication) to expose, dismiss 3. (figuratively) absolve, begin [a primitive root] KJV: avenge, avoid, bare, go back, let, (make) naked, set at nought, perish, refuse, uncover.
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to lead
Usage: to lead, act as leader
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render para`, 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.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6544.
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6544, grouped by book.
Para (Strong's H6544) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "loosen". para` (paw-rah') v. 1. to loosen 2. (by implication) to expose, dismiss
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H6544 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6544 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as let, bare, avoid, and go. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.