a flea; the fruit of a moth
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
PAROSH.The name of a post-exilic family (Ezr_2:3 = Neh_7:8) Ezr_8:3; Ezr_10:25, Neh_3:25; Neh_10:14. The Gr. form Phoros is adopted in 1Es_5:9; 1Es_8:30; 1Es_9:26.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Ezr_2:3; Neh_7:8; Neh_8:3; Neh_10:25; Neh_3:25; Neh_10:14.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
pā?rosh, par?osh (פּרעשׁ, par‛ōsh, ?flea? (leap)): a family that in part returned under Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:3; Neh_7:8), and in part under Ezra (Ezr_8:3; there spelt ?Pharosh,? the King James Version). Some of the family had foreign wives (Ezr_10:25). One descendant, Pedaiah (see PEDAIAH, (3)), helped to rebuild the city walls (Neh_3:25), and others were among those who ?sealed? the covenant of Nehemiah (Neh_10:1, Neh_10:14). In 1 Esdras 5:9; 8:30; 9:26, ?Phoros.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Parosh
SEE FLEA.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.