Bible word study

Parach (Strong’s H6524): Meaning in the Bible

Parach (פָּרַח) is the Hebrew word numbered H6524 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to break forth as a bud, i.e. bloom; generally, to spread; specifically, to fly (as extending the wings); figuratively, to flourish. In the King James Bible it is translated blossom, break forth (out), bud, flourish, make fly.

• Original wordפָּרַח
• Transliterationpârach
• Pronunciationpaw-rakh'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH6524
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Parach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Parach (H6524) stands behind 36 English renderings in 33 verses across 12 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Leviticus (8), Isaiah (6), Psalms (4).

How the King James Bible renders Parach, by count

• flourish9 of 36 (25 percent)
• blossom4 of 36 (11 percent)
• budded3 of 36 (8 percent)
• broken2 of 36 (6 percent)
• bud2 of 36 (6 percent)
• fly2 of 36 (6 percent)

Three places to read Parach

• Genesis 40:10 And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
• Numbers 17:8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
• Isaiah 27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Parach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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