paro · Pharaoh

What it means

paro (פַּרְעֹה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Pharaoh”.

The title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.

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 title of the king of Egypt.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name. BDB defines it as a general title of Egyptian kings.

• The Pharaoh of Abram and that of Joseph Genesis 12:15Genesis 41:14
• The Pharaoh of the exodus Exodus 1:11Exodus 5:2
• The Pharaoh with whom Solomon made a marriage alliance 1 Kings 3:1

How we translate it

“Pharaoh” 268 times. This edition writes “Pharaoh” capitalized and without the article, as the Hebrew uses it, like a name. When it goes with the king's own name (“Pharaoh Neco”) it has another entry.

Where it appears

• Genesis×94
• Exodus×115
• Deuteronomy×7
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×13
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×9
• Ezekiel×13

• Genesis 12:15

  Pharaoh’s princes saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into the house of Pharaoh.

• Genesis 12:17

  But YHWH struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Genesis 12:18

  So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

• Genesis 12:20

  Pharaoh gave orders to men concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.

• Genesis 37:36

  Meanwhile the Medanites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard.

• Genesis 39:1

  Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

• Genesis 40:2

  Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers,

• Genesis 40:7

  He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in custody in his lord’s house, saying, “Why are your faces sad today?”

• Genesis 40:11

  Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

• Genesis 40:13

  Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, after the former manner when you were his cupbearer.

• Genesis 40:14

  But think of me when it goes well with you, and show, please, loyal love to me, and mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house.

• Genesis 40:17

  In the top basket there was every kind of food for Pharaoh, the work of a baker, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

• Genesis 40:19

  Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from upon you and hang you on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh from upon you.”

• Genesis 40:20

  On the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.

• Genesis 40:21

  He restored the chief of the cupbearers to his post as cupbearer, and he put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand;

• Genesis 41:1

  At the end of two full years, Pharaoh was dreaming, and look, he was standing by 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 41:7

  The thin ears swallowed the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh woke up, and look, it was a dream.

• Genesis 41:8

  In the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:9

  Then the chief of the cupbearers spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “My sins I am remembering today.

• Genesis 41:10

  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, me and the chief of the bakers.

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. He shaved, changed his clothes, and came to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:15

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; but I have heard it said about you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

• Genesis 41:16

  Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; Elohim will answer with peace for Pharaoh.”

• Genesis 41:17

  Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph: “In my dream, look, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;

• Genesis 41:25

  Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What Elohim is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:28

  This is the thing that I said to Pharaoh: what Elohim is about to do he has shown Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:32

  As for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is fixed by Elohim, and Elohim is hurrying to do it.

• Genesis 41:33

  Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:34

  Let Pharaoh act, and appoint overseers over the land, and take a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.

• Genesis 41:35

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, as food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Genesis 41:37

  The proposal seemed good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.

• Genesis 41:38

  Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man in whom is the spirit of Elohim?”

• Genesis 41:39

  Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since Elohim has made known to you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.

• Genesis 41:41

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:42

  Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a chain of gold around his neck.

• Genesis 41:44

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:45

  Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:46

  Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and passed through all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:55

  When all the land of Egypt was hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; what he tells you do.”

And 228 more times.