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Hebrew
Verb
פָּרַע • (pará) (pa'al construction)
- to pay (a bill)
- (Biblical Hebrew) To let loose; to tear, destroy; to loosen, disarrange; to neglect (the hair).
Tanach, Leviticus 10:6, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:רָאשֵׁיכֶם אַל תִּפְרָעוּ וּבִגְדֵיכֶם לֹא תִפְרֹמוּ וְלֹא תָמֻתוּ וְעַל כָּל הָעֵדָה יִקְצֹף- Let not the hair of your heads go loose, neither rend your clothes, that ye die not, and that He be not wroth with all the congregation
- To uncover.
a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Chullin 91a:פרע להן בית השחיטה- Uncover the place of cutting for them (show them that the animal has been cut according to the ritual).
- (Mishnaic Hebrew, Jewish law) to uncover the corona, to split the membrane and pull it down.
- (Mishnaic Hebrew) To settle with; to punish.
a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Bava Metzi'a 4:2:מי שפרע מאנשי דור המבול..., הוא עתיד להיפרע ממי שאינו עומד בדיבורו- He who punished the men of the generation of the Flood… He will punish him who does not stand by his word (although the court cannot compel him).
- (Biblical Hebrew) To go back; to set at nought.
Conjugation
References
- “פרע” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1235