H6578 פְּרָת (Pᵉrâth) per-awth'

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

Euphrates

Biblical Persons & Places

Euphrates Euphrates

A location first mentioned at Gen.2.14; referred to as Euphrates (פְּרָת), or Euphrates (KJV= "channel" (שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת), or River or Euphrates (נָהָר), or River (Aramiac נְהַר), or Euphrates (Εὐφράτης).

Strong's Definition

Perath (i.e. Euphrates), a river of the East

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to break forth; rushing;

KJV Usage: Euphrates.

Outline of Biblical Usage

Euphrates = "fruitfulness"

1) the largest and longest river of western Asia; rises from two chief sources in the Armenian mountains and flows into the Persian Gulf

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

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

G2166

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

פְּרָת (pe.rat) — Euphrates.

§ Euphrates = "fruitfulness" the largest and longest river of western Asia; rises from two chief sources in the Armenian mountains and flows into the Persian Gulf

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

פְּרָת (H6578)

name

Names of Waterbodies

Euphrates = river, usually identified with the Euphrates; ◄ running through Mesopotamia; ► one of the four rivers flowing from the garden of Eden

GEN 2:14 · GEN 15:18 · DEU 1:7 · DEU 11:24 · JOS 1:4 · 2SA 8:3 · 2KI 23:29 · 2KI 24:7 · 1CH 5:9 · 1CH 18:3 · 2CH 35:20 · JER 13:4 · JER 13:5 · JER 13:6 · JER 13:7 · JER 46:2 · JER 46:6 · JER 46:10 · JER 51:63

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פְּרָת n.pr.flum. Euphrates base

Bible Occurrences (18)

2:14 15:18

1:7 11:24

1:4

23:29 24:7

5:9 18:3

35:20

13:4 13:5 13:6 13:7 46:2 46:6 46:10 51:63

Genesis 2:14

The name of the third river [is] the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river [is the] Euphrates.

Genesis 15:18

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given this land — from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates... —

Deuteronomy 1:7

Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; [go] to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast... to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River... to the Western Sea.

Joshua 1:4

Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon... to the great River Euphrates -— all the land of the Hittites— and west... as far as the Great Sea.

2 Kings 23:29

During [Josiah’s] reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but [Neco] faced him and killed him at Megiddo.

2 Kings 24:7

Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again..., because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory......, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

1 Chronicles 5:9

They also settled in the east as far as... the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.