Parah פָּרָה

Parah (Hebrew פָּרָה, Strong's H6510) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “heifer”. It occurs 26 times in 22 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Parah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 32:15
  Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
• Genesis 41:2
  And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
• Genesis 41:3
  And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
• Genesis 41:4
  And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up,
• Genesis 41:18
  And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
• Genesis 41:19
  And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
• Genesis 41:20
  And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
• Genesis 41:26
  The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The dreams have the same meaning.
• Genesis 41:27
  And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.

Numbers

• Numbers 19:2
  This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
• Numbers 19:5
  And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
• Numbers 19:6
  And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
• Numbers 19:9
  And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
• Numbers 19:10
  And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 6:7
  Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
• 1 Samuel 6:10
  And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
• 1 Samuel 6:12
  And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth–shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth–shemesh.And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
• 1 Samuel 6:14
  And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth–shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

Job

• Job 21:10
  Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 11:7
  And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

Hosea

• Hosea 4:16
  For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

Amos

• Amos 4:1
  Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).