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H6556 פֶּרֶץ (perets) peh'-rets

Hebrew
Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)
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Quick Definition

breach

Strong's Definition

a break (literally or figuratively)

Derivation: from H6555 (פָּרַץ)lemma פּרַץ missing vowel, corrected to פָּרַץ;

KJV Usage: breach, breaking forth (in), [idiom] forth, gap.

TWOT Reference: 1826a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) breach, gap, bursting forth
1a) bursting forth, outburst
1b) breach
1c) broken wall
1d) outburst (fig. of God's wrath)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּ֫רֶץ (pe.rets) — breach. 1) breach, gap, bursting forth 1a) bursting forth, outburst 1b) breach 1c) broken wall 1d) outburst (fig. of God's wrath)

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

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פֶּ֫רֶץ n.m. bursting forth, breach base

Bible Occurrences (18)

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