פָּרַק (b. h.) to break, separate; to untie, loosen; to unload. Sabb. 138ᵃ וילון … ומותר לפוֹרְקוֹ it is permitted (on the Sabbath) to stretch a curtain and also to untie (remove) it. Ib.ᵇ top. Y. Shebi. III, beg. 34ᶜ לא יִפְרוֹק וכ׳, v. מִשְׁפֶּלֶת. [Ib. לא יַפְרִיק Hif., v. infra.] Cant. R. to I, 5 טוענת ופוֹרֶקֶת she loads (becomes pregnant) and unloads (delivers); a. fr.—Trnsf. to redeem, deliver. Gen. R. s. 44 אני פוֹרְקָן I shall redeem them; a. e.—פ׳ עול to untie the yoke, cast off an obligation. Ab. III, 5, v. עוֹל. Tosef. Sot. XIV, 4 פָּרְקוּ מהם עול וכ׳ they cast off the heavenly yoke, and made flesh and blood rule over them; a. fr.—Tanḥ. Ḥuck. 25 אינן פּוֹרְקִין יראה they do not cast off the fear (of having lost the divine grace through their sins); Yalk. Num. 765 אין פורקין יראה מהם; Num. R. s. 19 אין פּוֹרְקִים ביראה (corr. acc.).—Part. pass. פָּרוּק; f. פְּרוּקָה; pl. פְּרוּקִים, פְּרוּקִין; פְּרוּקוֹת. Y. B. Kam. III, 3ᵈ אחד פ׳ ואחד טעון וכ׳ if (on meeting on the road) one animal is without a load, and the other is laden, the unladen must make room for the laden; היו שניהן … פ׳ if both are laden or both unladen. Ib. שתיהן פ׳ if both wagons are without a load; a. fr.—Esp. to help to unload an animal broken down under its burden (Ex. XXIII, 5). B. Mets. II, 10 מצוה … לִפְרוֹק, v. טָעַן II. Ib. אם רצונך לפרוק פְּרוֹק if thou desirest to unload, do so (without my assistance); a. fr.
Pi. - פֵּירֵק to sever, strip; to take off, release; to take apart. Shebi. II, 2 מְפָרְקִין you may release (trees in the Sabbatical year); Y. ib. 33ᵈ top מפ׳ בעלין ‘release’ refers to (a too luxuriant growth of) leaves. Ukts. II, 5 התחיל לְפָרֵק when he has begun to strip (vegetables). Tosef. ib. II, 13 התחיל לפרק באגוזים when he has begun to strip nuts (of their burrs). Sabb. 88ᵃ ירדו … ופֵירְקוּם one hundred and twenty myriads of angels of destruction came down and took them (the crowns) off their heads. Ib. בחורב … פֵּרְקוּ (Rashi פירקו) at Horeb they loaded (angels put crowns on their heads), and at Horeb they unloaded (angels took their crowns off). Men. 8ᵃ; 9ᵇ עד שלא פֵרְקָהּ before he took it (the pile of the show bread) apart. Y. Yoma I, 38ᶜ top מעמירו ומְפָרְקוֹ put it (the Tabernacle) up and broke it up again; העמידו ולא פירקו put it up and did not break it up again; Num. R. s. 13, beg.; Sifra Tsav, Milluim, Par. 1 end.—Y. M. Kat. I, 80ᵇ bot. מְפָרְקִין את המנעול וכ׳ you may take the shoe off the block. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 43ᵇ, v. פַּצִּים; a. fr.—Sabb. 95ᵃ חולב חייב משום מפרק one milking (on the Sabbath) is guilty of an act resembling unloading; Keth. 60ᵃ יונק מפרק כלאחר יד releasing the cow by sucking is unloading in an unusual way (v. אַחַר). Lev. R. s. 13 עמד ופֵרְקוּם לישראל he rose and took them off the back of the gentiles, and put them on Israel.—Sabb. 156ᵃ לְפָרֵק to take food from before one animal and place it before another, Rashi; [Tosaf.: to empty from vessel to vessel in order to procure a thorough mixture; other defin., v. Ar. s. v.].—Part. pass. מְפוֹרָק a) unloaded. B. Mets. 33ᵃ (ref. to Ex. l. c.) ‘under its burden’, ולא מפ׳ but not when it is unloaded (and the owner requires assistance to load it again). Ib. לא מפ׳ בחנם when it is unloaded, one need not assist in loading without remuneration.—b) taken apart, broken up. Tanḥ. P’kudé 11 והיה מונח ומפ׳ וכ׳ and it (the Tabernacle) lay in parts (uncombined) during &c.