פָּרַת (cmp. פרר, פרד) to divide, crush, crumble.
    Pi. - פֵּירֵת same, trnsf. (with ב) to belittle, make light of. Koh. R. to III, 11 אילו אחד … הוא פ׳ בממונו של עולם וכ׳ if any one else had said, ‘vanity of vanities &c.’ (ib. I, 2), I might have thought, one that never owned two pennies in his life, made light of the wealth of the world &c.