Severity
פֶּ֫רֶךְStrong’s H6531perekh (pe-rekh)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Perekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “harshness”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:”
Meaning
- Harshness, severity, cruelty
How it's translated
- with harshness 5
- and with harshness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Exodus 2
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 1:14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
- Leviticus 25:43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
- Leviticus 25:46And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
- Leviticus 25:53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
- Ezekiel 34:4The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫רֶךְ perekh · severity
harshness, severity, cruelty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “severity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEVER'ITY, noun
[Latin sveritas.]
- Harshness; rigor; austerity; want of mildness or indulgence; as the severity of a reprimand or reproof.
- Rigor; extreme strictness; as the severity of discipline or government.
- Excessive figor; extreme degree or amount.
- Extremity; quality or power of distressing; as the severity of pain or anguish.
All definitions
- Extreme degree; as the severity of cold or heat.
- Extreme coldness or inclemency; as the severity of the winter.
- Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as severity practiced on prisoners of war.
- Exactness; rigor; niceness; as the severity of a test.
- Strictness; rigid accuracy.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.