Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H6557
פֶּרֶץ
Peretspeh'-rets
Perez
15 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 H6557is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6557
Perets, the name of two Israelites
The King James renders it: Perez, Pharez.
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 "Perez". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, 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 38:29פָּֽרֶץ׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's fifteen uses are in 1 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Perez13
- and Perez1
- of Perez1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פֶּרֶץ | perets | breach | Uses19 |
| 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.
All 15, 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
- פֶ֖רֶץ3
- וָפֶ֣רֶץ1
- לְפֶ֕רֶץ1
- פֶ֔רֶץ1
- פֶ֗רֶץ1
- פֶ֕רֶץ1
- פֶּ֔רֶץ1
- פֶּ֖רֶץ1
- פֶּ֣רֶץ1
- פֶּ֧רֶץ1
- פָּ֔רֶץ1
- פָֽרֶץ׃1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)13HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
Genesis
three uses
But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
- פָּֽרֶץ׃paretzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
- וָפֶ֣רֶץvaferetzconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Perez
- פֶ֖רֶץferetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
Numbers
two uses
These were the descendants of Judah by their clans: The Shelanite clan from Shelah, the Perezite clan from Perez, and the Zerahite clan from Zerah.
- לְפֶ֕רֶץleferetzpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Perez
And these were the descendants of Perez: the Hezronite clan from Hezron and the Hamulite clan from Hamul.
- פֶ֔רֶץferetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
Ruth
three uses
And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
- פֶּ֔רֶץperetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,
- פָּ֔רֶץparetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
- פֶּ֖רֶץperetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
1 Chronicles
five uses
Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
- פֶּ֣רֶץperetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
- פֶ֖רֶץferetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
- פֶּ֧רֶץperetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, a descendant of Perez son of Judah.
- פֶ֖רֶץferetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
He was a descendant of Perez and chief of all the army commanders for the first month.
- פֶ֗רֶץferetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
Nehemiah
two uses
while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem.) From the descendants of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, a descendant of Perez;
- פָֽרֶץ׃faretzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.
- פֶ֕רֶץferetzproper noun (a name)tagged: Perez
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 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.