Bible word study

Parash (Strong’s H6571): Meaning in the Bible

Parash (פָּרָשׁ) is the Hebrew word numbered H6571 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a steed (as stretched out to a vehicle, not single nor for mounting ); also (by implication) a driver (in a chariot), i.e. (collectively) cavalry. In the King James Bible it is translated horseman..

• Original wordפָּרָשׁ
• Transliterationpârâsh
• Pronunciationpaw-rawsh'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH6571
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H6567; (compare H5483)

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Parash appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Parash (H6571) stands behind 56 English renderings in 53 verses across 19 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Exodus (7), 1 Kings (7), 2 Chronicles (7).

How the King James Bible renders Parash, by count

• horsemen55 of 56 (98 percent)
• horseman1 of 56 (2 percent)

Three places to read Parash

• Genesis 50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
• 1 Kings 10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

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 Parash 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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