Pᵉʼôrâh — H6288

Definition

feminine noun

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

1. bough, branch, shoot

Usually translated as

bough, branch, sprig

Origin

or pôrâʼh; or puʼrâh; from H6286

• Derived from Pâʼar (H6286)

Greek equivalents

• kládos (G2798)
• metrētḗs (G3355)

Occurrences

Pᵉʼôrâh occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (6)

• Judges 7:3 — Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
• Isaiah 10:33 — Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough (פֻּארָ֖ה) with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
• Ezekiel 17:6 — And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs (פֹּארֽוֹת).
• Ezekiel 31:5 — Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches (פֹארֹתָ֛יו) became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
• Ezekiel 31:6 — All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches (פֹּֽארֹתָיו֙) did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
• Ezekiel 31:8 — The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches (כְּפֹֽארֹתָ֑יו); nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
• Ezekiel 31:12 — And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs (פֹֽארֹתָיו֙) are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
• Ezekiel 31:13 — Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches (פֹּארֹתָ֣יו):