H6288 - פְּאֹרָה (pᵉʼôrâh)

H6288 פְּאֹרָה (pᵉʼôrâh) peh-o-raw'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

properly, ornamentation, i.e. (plural) foliage (including the limbs) as bright green

Derivation: or פֹּרָאה; or פֻּארָה; from H6286 (פָּאַר);

KJV Usage: bough, branch, sprig.

TWOT Reference: 1727a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) bough, branch, shoot

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2798 G3355

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פֻּארָה / פֹּרָאה / פְּאֹרָה peôrâh / pôrâh / pûrâh BDB Definition: 1) bough, branch, shoot Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6286 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1727a Total KJV Occurrences: 8

Bible Occurrences (7)

10:33

17:6 31:5 31:6 31:8 31:12 31:13

Isaiah 10:33

Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

Ezekiel 17:6

It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.

Ezekiel 31:5

Therefore... it towered higher than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the abundant waters.

Ezekiel 31:6

All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.

Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No... tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:12

Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

Ezekiel 31:13

All the birds of the air nested on its fallen trunk, and all the beasts of the field lived among its boughs.