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H6557 פֶּרֶץ (Perets) peh'-rets
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

the same as 6556; Perets, the name of two Israelites

KJV Usage: Perez, Pharez

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּ֫רֶץ (pe.rets) — Perez. A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.38.29; son of: Judah (H3063) and Tamar (H8559); brother of: Zerah (H2226I); half-brother of: Er (H6147), Onan (H0209) and Shelah (H7956); father of: Hezron (H2696H) and Hamul (H2538) § Perez or Pharez = "breach" twin son with Zarah of Judah by Tamar and ancestor of two families of Judah, the Hezronites and Hamulites; from the Hezronites came the royal line of David and Christ

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · פרץ · בַּעַל פְּרָצִים

Impact

breach, gap = large hole in a wall, hedge, or in the ground; ► made 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

1KI 11:27 · NEH 6:1 · JOB 16:14 · JOB 16:14 · JOB 30:14 · PSA 106:23 · PSA 144:14 · ISA 30:13 · ISA 58:12 · EZK 13:5 · EZK 22:30 · AMO 4:3 · AMO 9:11

Impact

breaking through = causative action by which humans break through a group of other humans or another barrier in order to go somewhere

GEN 38:29 · 2SA 5:20 · 1CH 14:11

Angry

outburst = action by which deities break emotionally through the barrier of patience and show their anger against someone else

2SA 6:8 · 1CH 13:11

Quantity

breach, gap > missing element = state in which a nation is incomplete in number ◄ in the same way as a town wall with a gap in it is incomplete

JDG 21:15

name · פַּרְצִי

Names of People

Perez = man; ◄ oldest son of Judah

GEN 38:29 · GEN 46:12 · GEN 46:12 · NUM 26:20 · NUM 26:21 · RUT 4:12 · RUT 4:18 · RUT 4:18 · 1CH 2:4 · 1CH 2:5 · 1CH 4:1 · 1CH 9:4 · 1CH 27:3 · NEH 11:4 · NEH 11:6

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּ֫רֶץ n.pr. m. son of Judah and Tamar

loc. in פֶּ׳ עֻזָּא near Jerus.

הַר פְּרָצִים

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