Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6501
פֶּרֶא
perepeh'-reh
wild donkey
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pereʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6501is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6501
the onager
The King James renders it: wild (ass).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pere is rendered "wild donkey". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 16:12He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Genesis 16:12פֶּ֣רֶא
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a wild donkey4
- wild donkeys3
- a wild donkey of1
- and wild donkeys1
- wild donkey1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- פֶּ֣רֶא2
- וּפְרָאִים֙1
- פֶּ֥רֶא1
- פֶּ֝֗רֶא1
- פֶּ֖רֶא1
- פְרָאִ֣ים1
- פְּרָאִ֖ים1
- פְּרָאִ֨ים׀1
- פֶּ֣רֶה׀1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Genesis
one use
He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
- פֶּ֣רֶאpere'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a wild donkey of
Job
four uses
Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
- פֶּ֥רֶאpere'noun · masculine singulartagged: a wild donkey
But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- פֶּ֝֗רֶאpere'noun · masculine singulartagged: a wild donkey
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- פְּרָאִ֨ים׀peraimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wild donkeys
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
- פֶּ֣רֶאpere'noun · masculine singulartagged: wild donkey
Psalms
one use
They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
- פְרָאִ֣יםferaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wild donkeys
Isaiah
one use
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
- פְּרָאִ֖יםperaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: wild donkeys
Jeremiah
two uses
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
- פֶּ֣רֶה׀perehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a wild donkey
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
- וּפְרָאִים֙uferaimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and wild donkeys
Hosea
one use
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
- פֶּ֖רֶאpere'noun · masculine singulartagged: a wild donkey
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.