פָּרַס pâraç — to break in pieces, i.e. (usually without violence) to split, distribute
Translated in the KJV as deal, divide, have hoofs, part, tear.
a primitive root; to break in pieces, i.e. (usually without violence) to split, distribute.
pâraç in each stem
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 9Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive absolute 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
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 ›