Strong’s H6550 · Hebrew
פַּרְעֹשׁ
parʻôsh · par-oshe'
Origin probably from פָּרַע (H6544) and עָשׁ (H6211);
Meaning a flea (as the isolated insect)
In the King James Version flea.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Samuel 24:14After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
- 1 Samuel 26:20Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.