para · be fruitful

What it means

para (פָּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be fruitful”.

Bear fruit; be fruitful, have descendants.

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 multiply, have many children.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• fruitful ×16
• Be fruitful ×9
• bearing ×1
• let them bear the fruit ×1
• will bear fruit ×1
• you increase ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×15
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 1:22

  And Elohim blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

• Genesis 1:28

  And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every animal that creeps on the earth.”

• Genesis 8:17

  Every animal that is with you, of all flesh, birds and livestock and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, bring out with you, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

• Genesis 9:1

  And Elohim blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

• Genesis 9:7

  And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply on it.”

• Genesis 17:6

  I will make you fruitful exceedingly, and I will make you into nations, and kings will come from you.

• Genesis 17:20

  As for Ishmael, I have heard you; look, I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly. He will father twelve chiefs, and I will make him into a great nation.

• Genesis 26:22

  He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called its name Rehoboth, and said, “For now YHWH has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Genesis 28:3

  May El Shaddai bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.

• Genesis 35:11

  And Elohim said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and an assembly of nations will come from you, and kings will come out from your loins.

• Genesis 41:52

  The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For Elohim has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

• Genesis 47:27

  Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; they acquired possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

• Genesis 48:4

  He said to me, ‘Look, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make you an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your offspring after you as an eternal possession.’

• Genesis 49:22

  Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; its branches run over the wall.

• Exodus 1:7

  But the sons of Israel were fruitful, swarmed, multiplied, and grew strong, very, very much, and the land was filled with them.

• Exodus 23:30

  Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you increase and take possession of the land.

• Leviticus 26:9

  And I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish my covenant with you.

• Deuteronomy 29:18

  Beware lest there be among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart is turning away today from YHWH our Elohim to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood.

• Psalms 105:24

  And he made his people very fruitful, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

• Psalms 128:3

  Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner parts of your house; your children like shoots of olive trees around your table.

• Isaiah 11:1

  And a shoot will come out from the trunk of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

• Isaiah 17:6

  And there will be left in it gleanings, as when beating an olive tree: two, three olives at the top of the highest branch, four, five on its fruitful branches, declares YHWH, Elohim of Israel.

• Isaiah 32:12

  On the breasts they beat themselves in lament, for the fields of delight, for the fruitful vine,

• Isaiah 45:8

  Drip, heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bear the fruit of salvation, and let it make righteousness sprout together; I, YHWH, have created it.”

• Jeremiah 3:16

  And it will happen, when you multiply and are fruitful in the land in those days, declares YHWH, they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of YHWH.’ It will not come up into the heart, and they will not remember it, and they will not miss it, and it will not be made again.

• Jeremiah 23:3

  And I will gather the remnant of my sheep out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their abode, and they will be fruitful and multiply.

• Ezekiel 19:10

  Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; fruitful and full of branches she was because of many waters.

• Ezekiel 36:11

  And I will multiply on you human being and livestock, and they will multiply and be fruitful; and I will settle you as in your former times, and I will do more good than at your beginnings; and you will know that I am YHWH.

And 1 more times.