פרא

• פֶּרֶה

From the same root as Arabic فَرَأ (wild ass, onager).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈpeʁe/

פֶּרֶא • (pére) m (plural indefinite פְּרָאִים, singular construct פֶּרֶא־, plural construct פִּרְאֵי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. wild ass (primarily Equus hemionus)
   • Tanach, Job 6:5, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     הֲיִנְהַק־פֶּרֶא עֲלֵי־דֶשֶׁא אִם יִגְעֶה־שּׁוֹר עַל־בְּלִילוֹ׃

     Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

2. (Biblical Hebrew, figuratively) someone living in the wild as an animal does
   • Tanach, Genesis 16:12, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְהוּא יִהְיֶה פֶּרֶא אָדָם יָדוֹ בַכֹּל וְיַד כֹּל בּוֹ וְעַל־פְּנֵי כׇל־אֶחָיו יִשְׁכֹּן׃

     And he shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren.

• פִּרְאִי (pir'í, “wild, savage”)

• H6501 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “פֶּרֶא”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 522c
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1213a

פרא (frʔ)

1. misspelling of פראיו (frʔyw)^[1]
   • c. 1100, Kharja H14, section 1:

     כפרא ממה

     kfrʔ mmh

     What shall I do, mother?