to sprout
pa.rach describes vegetation coming into growth and, in wider clauses, people or conditions flourishing or harmful results emerging.
The term most often describes plants, shoots, vines, or cultivated growth coming forth; related clauses use this growth language for flourishing among the righteous, a tent, or a dry tree. A smaller set applies the same emergence pattern to judgment, arrogance, or a spreading plague.
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Vegetation coming into growth · dominant
In Genesis 40:10, the feminine active participle occurs of a vine as the APB renders it “sprouting,” followed by blossom and ripened grape clusters. Isaiah 35:1 describes the Arabah as sprouting like the crocus, while Job 14:9 places the growth of a tree after the aroma of water; Song of Songs 6:11 similarly asks whether the vines had flowered.
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Flourishing or productive growth · common
The imperfect forms describe continuing or anticipated flourishing: Psalm 72:7 concerns the righteous, and Psalm 92:13 places those flourishing in the courts of God. Proverbs 14:11 contrasts the destroyed house of the wicked with the tent of the upright that the APB renders “will flourish”; Ezekiel 17:24 likewise sets the dry tree's flourishing beside the lowering and exalting of trees.
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Emergence of adverse conditions · occasional
In Hosea 10:4, a sequential perfect occurs where the APB renders judgment as having “sprouted like poison” in field furrows. Ezekiel 7:10 places the perfect form in the announcement that the rod has blossomed and arrogance has sprouted, and Leviticus 13:57 uses a feminine active participle for a plague still appearing in a garment or skin article.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the growth clauses with “sprouting,” “sprout,” “blossom,” “flowered,” and “flourish.” Because it is a whole-verse translation, these renderings show the clauses' presentation but do not assign a fixed English equivalent to every form.