| Easton's Bible Dictionary The heifer, a town in Benjamin (Joshua 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. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PARAH pa'-ra, par'-a (ha-parah; Codex Vaticanus Phara; Codex Alexandrinus Aphar): A city named as in the territory of Benjamin between Avvim and Ophrah (Joshua 18:23). It may with some confidence be identified with Farah on Wady Farah, which runs into Wady Suweinit, about 3 miles Northeast of `Anata. | Multi-Version Concordance Parah (5 Occurrences) Joshua 18:23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 13:4 Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock. (BBE) Jeremiah 13:5 So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me. (BBE) Jeremiah 13:6 Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there. (BBE) Jeremiah 13:7 So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything. (BBE) |