PAROSH

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pa'-rosh, par'-osh (par`osh, "flea" (leap)): a family that in part returned under Zerubbabel ( Ezr 2:3 ; Ne 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 ( Ne 3:25 ), and others were among those who "sealed" the covenant of Nehemiah ( Ne 10:1 , 14 ). In 1 Esdras 5:9; 8:30; 9:26, "Phoros."