STRONGS NUMBER H6473


Word Summary
paar: to open wide (the mouth)
Original Word: פָעַר
Transliteration: paar
Phonetic Spelling: (paw-ar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to open wide (the mouth)
Meaning: to open wide (the mouth)
Strong's Concordance
gape, open wide

A primitive root; to yawn, i.e. Open wide (literally or figuratively) -- gape, open (wide).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6473. paar

[מָּעַר‎] verb open wide (the mouth) (Late Hebrew rarely = Biblical Hebrew, usually open bowels, go to stool; compare Jewish-Aramaic מְּעַר‎; Arabic and Syriac = Biblical Hebrew, chasm); —

Qal Perfect of voracious greed, figurative 3feminine singular מִּיהָ וּפָֽעֲרָהIsaiah 5:14 (of Sheôl), 3 plural בְּפִיהֶם עָלַי מָּֽעֲרוּ‎ (Ges§ 119q) Job 16:10; of eager desire (good sense), מָּֽעֲרוּ מִּיהֶם29:23, מִּיפָֿעַרְתִּיPsalm 119:131.