פָּרַק pâraq — to break off or crunch
Translated in the KJV as break, deliver, redeem, rend, tear in pieces.
a primitive root; to break off or crunch; figuratively, to deliver.
pâraq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Pi'el
Imperative 1Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
Hitpa'el
Wayyiqtol 1Imperative 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
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 ›
