פֶּרֶץperets/peh'-rets/
HebrewH655619 occurrences (KJV)
a break (literally or figuratively)
KJV renders it: breach, breaking forth (in), [idiom] forth, gap.
Where it appears(showing the first 18 of 19)
- Gen 38:29As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
- Judg 21:15The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
- 2 Sam 5:20David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
- 2 Sam 6:8David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.
- 1 Kgs 11:27This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.
- 1 Chr 13:11David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
- 1 Chr 14:11So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
- Neh 6:1Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)
- Job 16:14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
- Job 30:14As through a wide breach they come, in the middle of the ruin they roll themselves in.
- Ps 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
- Ps 144:14Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.
- Isa 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
- Isa 58:12Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
- Ezek 13:5You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.
- Ezek 22:30“I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
- Amos 4:3You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.
- Amos 9:11In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.