parak · tear off

What it means

parak (פָּרַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tear off”.

Break away, shake off; also rescue.

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 tear something off.
2. To snatch someone from enemies.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Tear off ×2
• rescue us ×1
• ripping it apart ×1
• tear it off ×1
• tore off ×1
• tore us away ×1
• was tearing ×1
• were broken off ×1
• you will tear ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 27:40

  By your sword you will live, and your brother you will serve; but it will be when you break loose that you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

• Exodus 32:2

  And Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold earrings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

• Exodus 32:3

  So all the people tore off the gold earrings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

• Exodus 32:24

  So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, tear it off!’ And they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

• 1 Kings 19:11

  He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before YHWH.” And there, YHWH was passing by, and a great and strong wind was tearing mountains and breaking rocks before YHWH; YHWH was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake; YHWH was not in the earthquake.

• Psalms 7:2

  lest he tear my soul like a lion, ripping it apart, with no one to deliver.

• Psalms 136:24

  and tore us away from our adversaries, for his loyal love is forever.

• Lamentations 5:8

  Servants rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their hand.

• Ezekiel 19:12

  But she was uprooted in fury, to the earth she was cast down; and the east wind dried up her fruit; her strong rods were broken off and withered; fire consumed it.

• Zechariah 11:16

  For look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land; those that are disappearing he will not attend to, the straying he will not seek, and the broken he will not heal, the one that stands he will not sustain; but the flesh of the fat he will eat, and their hooves he will tear off.