parad · separate

What it means

parad (פָּרַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “separate”.

Part, be divided; spread out.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To go one's own way, like Abram and Lot.
2. To separate others, divide.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• separated ×12
• separates ×4
• separate ×2
• are scattered ×1
• go aside ×1
• have come apart ×1
• it decides ×1
• it divided ×1
• were spread out ×1
• will be divided ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• Ruth×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×5
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 2:10

  And a river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches.

• Genesis 10:5

  From these the coastlands of the nations separated into their lands, each according to his language, according to their families, in their nations.

• Genesis 10:32

  These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations separated on the earth after the flood.

• Genesis 13:9

  Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; and if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

• Genesis 13:11

  So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward; and they separated, each from his brother.

• Genesis 13:14

  YHWH said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

• Genesis 25:23

  YHWH said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from your inner parts will be divided; one people will be stronger than the other people, and the older will serve the younger.”

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and he turned the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the dark in the flock of Laban; and he made for himself flocks by themselves and did not put them with the flock of Laban.

• Deuteronomy 32:8

  When Elyon gave the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

• Judges 4:11

  Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

• Ruth 1:17

  Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. So may YHWH do to me, and so may he add, if anything but death separates me and you.”

• 2 Samuel 1:23

  Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their life, and in their death they were not separated; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

• 2 Kings 2:11

  And it happened, as they were walking along and talking, that, look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah went up in the whirlwind to the heavens.

• Nehemiah 4:19

  And I said to the nobles, to the officials, and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and extensive, and we are separated on the wall, far each from his brother.

• Esther 3:8

  And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from those of every people, and the king’s laws they do not keep; and for the king it is not worthwhile to leave them alone.

• Job 4:11

  The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

• Job 41:17

  Each one clings to its brother; they are locked together and do not separate.

• Psalms 22:14

  Like water I have been poured out, and all my bones have come apart; my heart has become like wax, it has melted within my inward parts.

• Psalms 92:9

  For look, your enemies, YHWH, for look, your enemies will perish; all the workers of wickedness will be scattered.

• Proverbs 16:28

  A man of perversities spreads strife, and a grumbler separates close friends.

• Proverbs 17:9

  Whoever covers a transgression seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

• Proverbs 18:1

  One who separates himself seeks his own desire; against all sound judgment he breaks out.

• Proverbs 18:18

  The lot puts an end to strife, and between the mighty it decides.

• Proverbs 19:4

  Wealth adds many companions, but the poor man is separated from his companion.

• Ezekiel 1:11

  And such were their faces. And their wings were spread out upward; each had two joined to those of another, and two covering their bodies.

• Hosea 4:14

  I will not call your daughters to account when they prostitute themselves, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with sacred prostitutes; and a people that does not understand will come to ruin.