פָּרַר pârar — to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate
Translated in the KJV as × any ways, break, cast off, cause to cease, × clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail.
a primitive root; to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate.
pârar in each stem
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 11Infinitive construct 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Infinitive absolute 3Imperative 3Wayyiqtol 2Participle (active) 2Jussive 1
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the Lord.
Pilpel
Wayyiqtol 1
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Po'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive absolute 1
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Hitpolel
Perfect (qatal) 1
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
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 ›