HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6511
פָּרָה
pa.rah — Parah
§ Parah = "heifer-town" a town in Benjamin
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Parah
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
The heifer, a town in Benjamin (Josh. 18:23), supposed to be identical with the ruins called Far’ah, about 6 miles north-east of Jerusalem, in the Wady Far’ah, which is a branch of the Wady Kelt.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.