Quick Definition
to break through
Strong's Definition
to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: [idiom] abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in, up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, scatter, urge.
TWOT Reference: 1826
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּרַץ (pa.rats) — to break through. 1) to break through or down or over, burst, breach 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to break or burst out (from womb or enclosure) 1a2) to break through or down, make a breach in 1a3) to break into 1a4) to break open 1a5) to break up, break in pieces 1a6) to break out (violently) upon 1a7) to break over (limits), increase 1a8) to use violence 1a9) to burst open 1a10) to spread, distribute 1b) (Niphal) to be broken through 1c) (Pual) to be broken down 1d) (Hithpael) to break away
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מִפְרָץ · פָּרִיץ · פֶּרֶץ
Impact | verb qal
to burst = process by which a container bursts open due to abundance of contents
Impact | verb qal
to break, to breach, to make breaches, to cut = causative action by which humans or deities make one or more large holes in a wall, hedge, or in the ground; ► with the purpose of entering through those holes or of making the area within it vulnerable; ≈ to have a town with a breached wall is also regarded as a deep humiliation
2KI 14:13 · 2CH 25:23 · 2CH 26:6 · 2CH 32:5 · NEH 1:3 · NEH 2:13 · NEH 3:35 · NEH 4:1 · JOB 16:14 · JOB 28:4 · PSA 80:13 · PSA 89:41 · PRO 25:28 · ISA 5:5
Impact | verb qal | ≠ בנה
to break, to break down, to damage, to destroy = causative action by which humans or deities to inflict damage on something
Impact
to break through = causative action by which humans break through a group of people or another barrier in order to go somewhere
Angry
to burst out = action by which deities break emotionally through the barrier of patience and show their anger against someone else
EXO 19:22 · EXO 19:24 · 2SA 6:8 · 1CH 13:11 · 1CH 15:13 · PSA 60:3
Free | verb hit
to break away = state in which humans are no longer willing to serve someone
Urge | verb qal
to urge someone = action by which humans try to convince other humans with words to do what that person is unwilling or reluctant to do
Space | Quantity | verb qal | ≈ רבה
to increase, to spread = process by which humans and objects quickly increase in quantity and take up increasingly more space
GEN 28:14 · GEN 30:30 · GEN 30:43 · EXO 1:12 · 1CH 4:38 · JOB 1:10 · ISA 54:3 · HOS 4:10
Happen | verb qal
to break out, to be rampant = process by which events happen at a large scale and with much impact
Scatter | verb qal
to spread out, to distribute, to disperse = causative action by which humans divide a group of people and give each individual or division a responsibility
1 NEH 2:13 MT-K הםפרוצים | MT-Q הֵםפְּרוּצִים 2 NEH 2:13 MT-K המפרוצים | MT-Q הם פְּרוּצִים 3 2CH 24:7 The exact meaning of פרץ in this verse is not known. It is also possible that this verb should be understood in a more abstract sense, such as "to defile".
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
פָּרַץ vb. break through Qal break or burst out
break through, down (from without)
break into
break open, a mining shaft
break up, break in pieces
break out (violently) upon
use violence
break over [limits], increase
burst open, intrans., of wine vats
spread, i.e. become known
Niph. no vision spread abroad
Hithp. slaves who break away
base