para · cow

What it means

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

Heifer.

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. The adult female of the herd, which gives milk and bears calves.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cows ×18
• cow ×7
• heifer ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×12
• Numbers×5
• 1 Samuel×5
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 32:15

  thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

• Genesis 41:2

  And look, from the Nile there came up seven cows, beautiful in appearance and fat in flesh, and they grazed in the reed grass.

• Genesis 41:3

  And look, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly in appearance and thin in flesh, and they stood beside the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

• Genesis 41:4

  The cows ugly in appearance and thin in flesh ate up the seven cows beautiful in appearance and fat. Then Pharaoh woke up.

• Genesis 41:18

  and look, from the Nile there came up seven cows, fat in flesh and beautiful in form, and they grazed in the reed grass.

• Genesis 41:19

  And look, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly in form and lean in flesh; I have never seen any like them in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

• Genesis 41:20

  The lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

• Genesis 41:26

  The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.

• Genesis 41:27

  And the seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, scorched by the east wind, will be seven years of famine.

• Numbers 19:2

  “This is the statute of the instruction that YHWH has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel, that they bring you a red cow whole, on which there is no defect, and on which a yoke has never come.

• Numbers 19:5

  And one shall burn the cow before his eyes; her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her dung, he shall burn.

• Numbers 19:6

  And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them into the midst of the burning of the cow.

• Numbers 19:9

  And a clean man shall gather up the ash of the cow and deposit it outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be for the community of the sons of Israel to keep for the water of impurity; it is a sin offering.

• Numbers 19:10

  And the one who gathers the ash of the cow shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be for the sons of Israel and for the resident alien who resides among them a statute forever.

• 1 Samuel 6:7

  So now, take and make one new cart and two nursing cows on which no yoke has come and hitch the cows to the cart, and take their calves back home from behind them.

• 1 Samuel 6:10

  And the men did so; they took two nursing cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

• 1 Samuel 6:12

  And the cows went straight on the road, on the road to Beth-shemesh; along one highway they went, going and lowing, and they did not turn aside to the right or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines were walking after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.

• 1 Samuel 6:14

  And the cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there. And there was a great stone. And they split the wood of the cart and offered up the cows as a burnt offering to YHWH.

• Job 21:10

  Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.

• Isaiah 11:7

  And the cow and the bear will graze; their young will lie down together; and the lion, like the ox, will eat straw.

• Hosea 4:16

  For like a stubborn heifer Israel has been stubborn; now will YHWH pasture them like a lamb in a broad place?

• Amos 4:1

  Hear this word, cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, “Bring, and let us drink.”

And 4 more times.