פָּרָה pârâh — to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as bear, bring forth, (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.
a primitive root; to bear fruit (literally or figuratively).
pârâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 7Imperative 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Perfect (qatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Jussive 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
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 ›