פֶּרֶץ perets

Hebrew word for “breach” · Strong’s H6556 · used 19 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

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

How it is translated

Glosses given for perets in context, with how often each is used:

• breach 9
• breaches 3
• like a bursting out 2
• breaking out 2
• like a breach 2
• will be a breach 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 38 (1), Judges 21 (1), 2 Samuel 5 (1), 2 Samuel 6 (1), 1 Kings 11 (1), 1 Chronicles 13 (1), 1 Chronicles 14 (1), Nehemiah 6 (1), Job 16 (1), Job 30 (1)

Forms

• פרץ 10
• כפרץ 4
• בפרץ 2
• בפרצות 1
• ופרצים 1
• פרציהן 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with perets more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פָּרַץ parats “to break through” 6
• גָּדַר gadar “to wall up/off” 4
• קָרָא qara “to call” 6
• דָּוִד david “David” 6
• בַּעַל פְּרָצִים baal peratsim “Baal-perazim” 2
• פֶּרֶץ עֻזָּא perets uzza “Perez-uzzah” 2
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 4
• מָקוֹם maqom “place” 4
• עָמַד amad “to stand” 4
• גָּדֵר gader “wall” 2
• עֻזָּא uzza “Uzzah” 2
• אֹיֵב oyev “enemy” 3

Key verses

The verses using perets that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 38:29 — And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee:…
• 1 Kings 11:27 — And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.
• 1 Chronicles 13:11 — And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.
• 1 Chronicles 14:11 — So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of…
• Nehemiah 6:1 — Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no…
• Psalms 106:23 — Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
• Psalms 144:14 — That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
• Isaiah 30:13 — Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
• Isaiah 58:12 — And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The…
• Ezekiel 13:5 — Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
• Ezekiel 22:30 — And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
• Amos 9:11 — In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.