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פָּרַם

param · tear

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6533 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

param (פָּרַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tear”.

A garment.

How to say it

pa·ram

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 rip one's clothes as a sign of grief.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • tear ×2
  • torn ×1

Where it appears

  • Leviticus 10:6

    Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and he does not become angry with all the community; but your brothers, all the house of Israel, shall weep over the burning that YHWH has kindled.

  • Leviticus 13:45

    And the leper who has the sore —his garments shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall hang loose, and he shall cover himself up to the mustache and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’

  • Leviticus 21:10

    And the priest who is high among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose and shall not tear his garments.