פָּרַע pâraʻ — to loosen
Translated in the KJV as avenge, avoid, bare, go back, let, naked, set at nought, perish, refuse, uncover.
a primitive root; to loosen; by implication, to expose, dismiss; figuratively, absolve, begin.
pâraʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 2Jussive 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 2Perfect (qatal) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1Wayyiqtol 1Imperative 1
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›