Lexical Definition

‎פָּרָה‎ pârâh (paw-raw') be fruitful ^H:V
a primitive root

bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.

• to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)

1) to bear fruit, be fruitful, branch off
1a) (Qal) to bear fruit, be fruitful
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to bear fruit
1b2) to make fruitful
1b3) to show fruitfulness, bear fruit

See Greek: ἀναβαίνω · αὐξάνω · βλαστάνω · ὑψόω · φύω

Extended Information

• Also means: pa.ra (‎פ‎ָּ‎ר‎ָ‎א‎ "be fruitful" פָּרָא)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: פָּרָא

[‎פָּרָה‎] verb bear fruit, be fruitful (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew 1, ‎פְּרִי‎ = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician ‎פר‎ fruit; Ethiopic , blossom, bear fruit; Assyrian pir'u, posterity; compare also ᵑ7 ‎פֵּירָא‎ Syriac fruit, and Ba^{ZMG xii (1887), 604}): —

Qal Perfect 3 plural ‎פָּרוּ‎ Exod 1:7 1 plural consecutive ‎וּפָרִינוּ‎ Gen 26:22, etc.; Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎יִפְרֶה‎ Isa 11:1, etc.; Imperative masculine singular ‎פְּרֵה‎ Gen 35:11, masculine plural ‎פְּרוּ‎ Gen 1:22 +; Participle active ‎פֹּרֶה‎ Deut 29:17*, feminine ‎פֹּרִיָּה‎ Ezek 19:10; Isa 17:6, ‎פֹּרָת‎ (Ges^{«GKC:80g»§ 80g}; for *‎פֹּרַיַת‎ Lag^{BN 81}) Gen 49:22 (twice in verse); —

1. of men and animals, Exod 23:30 (E) Gen 26:22 (J); especially + ‎רבה‎ Jer 3:16; Jer 23:3; Ezek 36:11; Gen 35:11; Gen 47:27 (P), and ‎שָׁרַץ‎ (P) Gen 8:17; Gen 9:7; Exod 1:7, ‎׳‎‎פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ וגו‎ Gen 1:22; Gen 1:28; Gen 9:1.

2. of vine, ‎גֶּפֶן פֹּרִיָּה‎ Isa 32:12 fruitful vine, so Ps 128:3 (simile of wife); compare (in figurative of Israel) Ezek 19:10 in Messianic prediction Isa 11:1 a shoot from his [Jesse's] roots shall bear fruit; with accusative ‎ראֹשׁ‎ ‎׳‎‎שֹׁרֶשׁ פ‎ figurative, Deut 29:17* a root bearing gall (as its fruit); ‎יִפְרוּ יֶשַׁע‎ Isa 45:8 is dubious, read perhaps 3 feminine singular ‎תֵּפֶר‎ let earth be fruitful in salvation (Oort and others); Participle f., as substantive, ‎הַפֹּרַיָּה‎ the fruit-bearer, poetic for tree, Isa 17:6 (compare [‎סָעִיף‎] 2); so ‎בֵּן פֹּרָת‎ Gen 49:22 (twice in verse) Joseph is son of a fruit-bearer, i.e. a fruitful bough.

Hiph`il 1. cause to bear fruit,

2. make fruitful, subject ‎׳‎‎י‎ with accusative of man or people:

1. Perfect 3 masculine singular suffix ‎הִפְרַנִי‎ Gen 41:52 (E).

2. in P, ‎וְהִפְרֵתִ֫י‎ Gen 17:6; Gen 17:20 (‎רֵיתֵ֫י‎-), + ‎הִרְבָּה‎ Lev 26:9 (H); Imperfect 3 masculine singular jussive ‎יַפְרְךָ וְיַרְבְּךָ‎ Gen 28:3, ‎וַיֶּפֶר‎ Ps 105:24 Participle ‎הִנְנִי מַפְרְךָ וְהִרְבִּיתִךָ‎ Gen 48:4.

3. shew fruitfullness, bear fruit (Ges^{«GKC:53c»§ 53 c, d, g}): Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎יַפְרִיא‎ Hos 13:15 (as if from ‎פרא‎).

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