[פָּרָה] verb bear fruit, be fruitful (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew 1, פְּרִי = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician פר fruit; Ethiopic , blossom, bear fruit; Assyrian pir'u, posterity; compare also ᵑ7 פֵּירָא Syriac fruit, and BaZMG xii (1887), 604): —
Qal Perfect 3 plural
פָּרוּ 2 Mos 1,7 1 plural consecutive
וּפָרִינוּ 1 Mos 26,22, etc.;
Imperfect 3 masculine singular
יִפְרֶה Es 11,1, etc.;
Imperative masculine singular
פְּרֵה 1 Mos 35,11, masculine plural
פְּרוּ 1 Mos 1,22 +;
Participle active פֹּרֶה 5 Mos 29,17, feminine
פֹּרִיָּה Ezk 19,10;
Es 17,6,
פֹּרָת (
Ges«GKC:80g»§ 80g; for *
פֹּרַיַת LagBN 81)
1 Mos 49,22 (twice in verse); —
1. of men and animals,
2 Mos 23,30 (
E)
1 Mos 26,22 (
J); especially +
רבה Jer 3,16;
Jer 23,3;
Ezk 36,11;
1 Mos 35,11;
1 Mos 47,27 (
P), and
שָׁרַץ (
P)
1 Mos 8,17;
1 Mos 9,7;
2 Mos 1,7,
׳פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ וגו 1 Mos 1,22;
1 Mos 1,28;
1 Mos 9,1.
2. of vine,
גֶּפֶן פֹּרִיָּה Es 32,12 fruitful vine, so
Sl 128,3 (simile of wife); compare (in figurative of Israel)
Ezk 19,10 in Messianic prediction
Es 11,1 a shoot from his [Jesse's] roots
shall bear fruit; with accusative
ראֹשׁ ׳שֹׁרֶשׁ פ figurative,
5 Mos 29,17 a root bearing gall (as its fruit);
יִפְרוּ יֶשַׁע Es 45,8 is dubious, read perhaps 3 feminine singular
תֵּפֶר let earth
be fruitful in salvation (
Oort and others);
Participle f., as substantive,
הַפֹּרַיָּה the fruit-bearer, poetic for tree,
Es 17,6 (compare [
סָעִיף]
2); so
בֵּן פֹּרָת 1 Mos 49,22 (twice in verse) Joseph is
son of a fruit-bearer, i.e. a fruitful bough.
Hiph`il 1. cause to bear fruit,
2. make fruitful, subject ׳י with accusative of man or people:
1. Perfect 3 masculine singular suffix
הִפְרַנִי 1 Mos 41,52 (
E).
3. shew fruitfullness, bear fruit (
Ges«GKC:53c»§ 53 c, d, g):
Imperfect 3 masculine singular
יַפְרִיא Hos 13,15 (as if from
פרא).