parsa · hoof

What it means

parsa (פַּרְסָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hoof”.

Especially a split hoof; also claw.

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 hard part of an animal's foot, which may be split in two.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hoof ×13
• hoofs ×4
• hooves ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×9
• Deuteronomy×5
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 10:26

  Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for from it we must take to serve YHWH our Elohim, and we do not know with what we must serve YHWH until we arrive there.”

• Leviticus 11:3

  Any beast that has a divided hoof and is split with a cleft in its hooves, that chews the cud, among the beasts, it you may eat.

• Leviticus 11:4

  But these you shall not eat, among those that chew the cud or among those that divide the hoof: the camel, for it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it shall be unclean for you.

• Leviticus 11:5

  And the hyrax, for it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it shall be unclean for you.

• Leviticus 11:6

  And the hare, for it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it shall be unclean for you.

• Leviticus 11:7

  And the pig, for it divides the hoof and is split with a cleft in the hoof, but it does not chew the cud; it shall be unclean for you.

• Leviticus 11:26

  Every beast that divides the hoof but is not split with a cleft, and does not chew the cud, they shall be unclean for you; whoever touches them will be unclean.

• Deuteronomy 14:6

  And every beast that has a parted hoof, split into two hoofs, and chews the cud among the beasts, it you may eat.

• Deuteronomy 14:7

  But these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that have the hoof parted in two: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof; they are unclean for you.

• Deuteronomy 14:8

  And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

• Isaiah 5:28

  Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent; the hooves of its horses are counted like flint, and its wheels like the whirlwind.

• Jeremiah 47:3

  at the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rattling of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels; the fathers do not turn back to their children for the slackness of their hands,

• Ezekiel 26:11

  With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets; your people he will kill by the sword, and the standing stones of your strength to the ground will go down.

• Ezekiel 32:13

  And I will make all her livestock perish from beside many waters; and no human foot will muddy them any more, nor will the hooves of livestock muddy them.

• Micah 4:13

  “Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make iron, and your hoofs I will make bronze, and you will crush many peoples; and you will devote completely to YHWH their gain, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.”

• 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.

And 5 more times.