Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6556
פֶּרֶץ
peretspeh'-rets
breach
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6556is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6556
a break (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: breach, breaking forth (in), [idiom] forth, gap.
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
perets is rendered "breach". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:29But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
Genesis 38:29פָּ֑רֶץ
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 breach7
- a breaking out2
- in the breach2
- like a breach2
- like a bursting out of2
- and breaches1
- breach of1
- breaches their1
- in the breaches1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פֶּרַח | perach | flower | Uses17 |
| פֶּרֶד | pered | mule | Uses15 |
| פֶּרֶא | pere | wild donkey | Uses10 |
| פֶּרֶשׁ | peresh | refuse | Uses7 |
| פֶּרֶךְ | perek | severity | Uses6 |
| פֶּרֶס | peres | vulture | Uses2 |
| פֶּרַע | pera | lock | Uses2 |
| פֶּרֶק | pereq | plunder | Uses2 |
| פֶּרֶט | peret | broken | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- כְּפֶ֣רֶץ4
- פֶּ֖רֶץ3
- פָּ֑רֶץ2
- בַּפֶּ֣רֶץ1
- בַּפֶּ֧רֶץ1
- בַּפְּרָצ֔וֹת1
- וּפְרָצִ֥ים1
- פֶ֭רֶץ1
- פֶּ֭רֶץ1
- פֶּ֕רֶץ1
- פֶּ֔רֶץ1
- פָ֑רֶץ1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular9HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine plural1HNcmpc/Sp3fp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HRd/Ncfpa
Genesis
one use
But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
- פָּ֑רֶץparetznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breach
Judges
one use
The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
- פֶּ֖רֶץperetznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breach
2 Samuel
two uses
So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.
- כְּפֶ֣רֶץkeferetzpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a bursting out of
Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.
- פֶּ֖רֶץperetznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breaking out
1 Kings
one use
and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
- פֶּ֕רֶץperetznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: breach of
1 Chronicles
two uses
Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.
- פֶּ֖רֶץperetznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breaking out
So David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that place Baal-perazim.
- כְּפֶ֣רֶץkeferetzpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a bursting out of
Nehemiah
one use
When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
- פָּ֑רֶץparetznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breach
Job
three uses
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
- פֶ֭רֶץferetznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breach
- פָ֑רֶץfaretznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breach
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
- כְּפֶ֣רֶץkeferetzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a breach
Psalms
two uses
So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
- בַּפֶּ֣רֶץbaperetzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the breach
Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
- פֶּ֭רֶץperetznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breach
Isaiah
two uses
this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
- כְּפֶ֣רֶץkeferetzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a breach
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
- פֶּ֔רֶץperetznoun · masculine singulartagged: a breach
Ezekiel
two uses
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.
- בַּפְּרָצ֔וֹתbaperatzotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the breaches
I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
- בַּפֶּ֧רֶץbaperetzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the breach
Amos
two uses
You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.
- וּפְרָצִ֥יםuferatzimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and breaches
“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
- פִּרְצֵיהֶ֗ןpirtzeihennoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: breaches their
The letters
Gematria 370· 1,180 mispar gadol
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.