Usually translated as
break, make void, defeat, disannul, cause to cease, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, any ways, cast off, clean, disappoint, dissolve, bring, to nought, utterly
Occurrences
Pârar occurs 50 times in 46 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Leviticus (2), Numbers (5), Deuteronomy (2), Judges (1), 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (1), Job (4), Psalms (3), Proverbs (1), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (6), Jeremiah (4), Ezekiel (6), Zechariah (3)
- Genesis 17:14 — And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken (הֵפַֽר) my covenant.
- Leviticus 26:15 — And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break (לְהַפְרְכֶ֖ם) my covenant:
- Leviticus 26:44 — And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break (לְהָפֵ֥ר) my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
- Numbers 15:31 — Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken (הֵפַ֑ר) his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
- Numbers 30:8 — But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect (וְהֵפֵ֗ר): and the LORD shall forgive her.
- Numbers 30:12 — But if her husband hath utterly made them void (הָפֵר֩) on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
- Numbers 30:12 — But if her husband hath utterly made them void (הֲפֵרָ֔ם) on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
- Numbers 30:12 — But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void (יָפֵ֨ר); and the LORD shall forgive her.
- Numbers 30:13 — Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void (יְפֵרֶֽנּוּ).
- Numbers 30:15 — But if he shall any ways make them void (הָפֵ֥ר) after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
- Numbers 30:15 — But if he shall any ways make them void (יָפֵ֛ר) after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
- Deuteronomy 31:16 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break (וְהֵפֵר֙) my covenant which I have made with them.
- Deuteronomy 31:20 — For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break (וְהֵפֵ֖ר) my covenant.
- Judges 2:1 — And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break (אָפֵ֧ר) my covenant with you.
- 2 Samuel 15:34 — But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father’s servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat (וְהֵפַרְתָּ֣ה) the counsel of Ahithophel.
- 2 Samuel 17:14 — And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat (לְהָפֵ֞ר) the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
- 1 Kings 15:19 — There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break (הָפֵ֗רָה) thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
- 2 Chronicles 16:3 — There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break (הָפֵ֣ר) thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
- Ezra 4:5 — And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate (לְהָפֵ֣ר) their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 9:14 — Should we again break (לְהָפֵ֣ר) thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
- Nehemiah 4:15 — And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had (וַיָּ֥פֶר) brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
- Job 5:12 — He disappointeth (מֵ֭פֵר) the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- Job 15:4 — Yea, thou castest off (תָּפֵ֣ר) fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
- Job 16:12 — I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder (וַֽיְפַרְפְּרֵ֗נִי): he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
- Job 40:8 — Wilt thou also disannul (תָּפֵ֣ר) my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- Psalms 74:13 — Thou didst divide (פוֹרַ֣רְתָּ) the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
- Psalms 85:4 — Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease (וְהָפֵ֖ר).
- Psalms 119:126 — It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void (הֵ֝פֵ֗רוּ) thy law.
- Proverbs 15:22 — Without counsel purposes are disappointed (הָפֵ֣ר): but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 — Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail (וְתָפֵ֖ר): because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Isaiah 8:10 — Take counsel together, and (וְתֻפָ֑ר) it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
- Isaiah 14:27 — For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul (יָפֵ֑ר) it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
- Isaiah 24:5 — The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken (הֵפֵ֖רוּ) the everlasting covenant.
- Isaiah 24:19 — The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved (פּ֤וֹר), the earth is moved exceedingly.
- Isaiah 24:19 — The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved (הִֽתְפּוֹרְרָה֙), the earth is moved exceedingly.
- Isaiah 33:8 — The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken (הֵפֵ֤ר) the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- Isaiah 44:25 — That frustrateth (מֵפֵר֙) the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
- Jeremiah 11:10 — They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken (הֵפֵ֤רוּ) my covenant which I made with their fathers.
- Jeremiah 14:21 — Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break (תָּפֵ֥ר) not thy covenant with us.
- Jeremiah 33:20 — Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break (תָּפֵ֙רוּ֙) my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
- Jeremiah 33:21 — Then may also my covenant be broken (תֻפַר֙) with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
- Ezekiel 16:59 — For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking (לְהָפֵ֥ר) the covenant.
- Ezekiel 17:15 — But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break (וְהֵפֵ֥ר) the covenant, and be delivered?
- Ezekiel 17:16 — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he (הֵפֵ֖ר) brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
- Ezekiel 17:18 — Seeing he despised the oath by breaking (לְהָפֵ֣ר) the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
- Ezekiel 17:19 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
- Ezekiel 44:7 — In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken (וַיָּפֵ֙רוּ֙) my covenant because of all your abominations.
- Zechariah 11:10 — And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break (לְהָפֵיר֙) my covenant which I had made with all the people.
- Zechariah 11:11 — And it was broken (וַתֻּפַ֖ר) in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
- Zechariah 11:14 — Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break (לְהָפֵר֙) the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.