Strong's Definition
to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: [idiom] any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, [idiom] clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, [idiom] utterly, make void.
TWOT Reference: 1829,1830,1831
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּרַר (pa.rar) — to break. 1) to break, frustrate 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to break, violate 1a2) to frustrate, make ineffectual 1b) (Hophal) 1b1) to be frustrated 1b2) to be broken 1b3) to break 1c) (Pilpel) to break to bits, shatter Also means: pur (פּוּר "to break" H6331)
פָּרַר (pa.rar) — to split. 1) to split, divide 1a) (Qal) to split, crack through 1b) (Poel) to break apart 1c) (Hithpoel) to be split, be cracked through
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Impact | verb qal, verb hit
to be split, to be cracked = process by which an object develops cracks
Non-Whole | verb pi
to split, to divide literally: to break (the sea); hence: = causative process by which deities cause objects to divide themselves into two parts
End | verb hif, verb hof
to break, to annul, to reverse literally: to break (an agreement); hence: = causative action by which humans or deities cause an agreement or relationship, such as a vow or a covenant to become invalid
GEN 17:14 · LEV 26:15 · LEV 26:44 · NUM 30:9 · NUM 30:13 · NUM 30:13 · NUM 30:13 · NUM 30:14 · NUM 30:16 · NUM 30:16 · DEU 31:16 · DEU 31:20 · JDG 2:1 · 1KI 15:19 · 2CH 16:3 · JOB 40:8 · PSA 89:34 · ISA 24:5 · ISA 33:8 · JER 11:10 · JER 14:21 · JER 31:32 · JER 33:20 · JER 33:21 · EZK 16:59 · EZK 17:15 · EZK 17:16 · EZK 17:18 · EZK 17:19 · EZK 44:7 · ZEC 11:10 · ZEC 11:11 · ZEC 11:14
Non-Engage
to break literally: to break (a law); hence: = action by which humans intentionally do not perform an event that they were bound by law to perform
Non-Engage
to suppress, to push away literally: to break (an activity); hence: = action by which humans intentionally do not engage in a certain activity
Fail | verb hif, verb hof
to fail, to come to naught literally: (a plan) is broken; hence: = process by which plans or activities fail to meet their purpose
Fail | verb hif
to cause to fail, to frustrate literally: to break (a plan); hence: = causative action by which humans or deities cause the plans of (other) humans not to succeed
2SA 15:34 · 2SA 17:14 · EZR 4:5 · NEH 4:9 · JOB 5:12 · ISA 14:27 · ISA 44:25
Unsafe | verb pi
to break, to shatter literally: (God) breaks (humans); hence: = causative action by which deities cause humans to suffer in such a way that it completely upsets their reality
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[פָּרַר] vb. Hiph. break, frustrate Hoph. be frustrated
be broken
Pilp. he hath shattered me.
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[פָּרַר] vb. split, divide Qal Hithpō‛. split or cracked through in the earth
Pō‛êl thou didst divide the sea.
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