perat · Euphrates

What it means

perat (פְּרָת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Euphrates”.

Perath: the Hebrew name of the river Euphrates.

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.

The place

• Euphrates

  Today: Euphrates River: Turkey, Syria, Iraq

  The longest river in southwest Asia; it rises in Turkey and flows through Syria and Iraq to the Persian Gulf.

  It is one of the four rivers of Eden (Gen 2:14). God promised Abram the land as far as this river (Gen 15:18).

  Genesis 15:18Genesis 2:14Deuteronomy 1:7Joshua 1:4

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Jeremiah×8

• Genesis 2:14

  And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

• Genesis 15:18

  On that day YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

• Deuteronomy 1:7

  Turn, set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorite and to all its neighbors, in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Negev, and on the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

• Deuteronomy 11:24

  Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea shall be your territory.

• Joshua 1:4

  From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, shall be your territory.

• 2 Samuel 8:3

  David struck Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his hand at the river Euphrates.

• 2 Kings 23:29

  In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went to meet him, and he put him to death at Megiddo when he saw him.

• 2 Kings 24:7

  The king of Egypt did not again come out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates all that had belonged to the king of Egypt.

• 1 Chronicles 5:9

  And to the east he lived as far as the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

• 1 Chronicles 18:3

  David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah, toward Hamath, when he went to set up his hand at the river Euphrates.

• 2 Chronicles 35:20

  After all this, when Josiah had prepared the house, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates; and Josiah went out to meet him.

• Jeremiah 13:4

  “Take the belt that you bought, which is on your loins, and get up, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.”

• Jeremiah 13:5

  So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as YHWH had commanded me.

• Jeremiah 13:6

  And it happened at the end of many days that YHWH said to me: “Get up, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the belt that I commanded you to hide there.”

• Jeremiah 13:7

  So I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and look, the belt was ruined; it was not good for anything.

• Jeremiah 46:2

  Concerning Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

• Jeremiah 46:6

  Let not the swift flee, nor the mighty man escape! Northward, by the bank of the river Euphrates, they have stumbled and fallen.

• Jeremiah 46:10

  And that day belongs to Adonai YHWH Tsevaot, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his adversaries; and the sword will devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood; for Adonai YHWH Tsevaot has a sacrifice in the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

• Jeremiah 51:63

  And it will be, when you finish reading this book, that you will tie a stone to it, and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,