Perez
פֶּ֫רֶץStrong’s H6557perets (pe-rets)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Perets is the Hebrew word usually translated “perez”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.38.29
How it's translated
- perez 13
- and perez 1
- of perez 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 5
- Genesis 2
- Numbers 2
- Ruth 2
- Nehemiah 2
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 46:12And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
- Numbers 26:20And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
- Numbers 26:21And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
- Ruth 4:12And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.
- Ruth 4:18Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
- 1 Chronicles 2:4And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫רֶץ perets · Perez
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.38.29; son of: Judah (H3063) and Tamar (H8559); brother of: Zerah (H2226I); half-brother of: Er (H6147), Onan (H0209) and Shelah (H7956); father of: Hezron (H2696H) and Hamul (H2538) § Perez or Pharez = "breach" twin son with Zarah of Judah by Tamar and ancestor of two families of Judah, the Hezronites and Hamulites; from the Hezronites came the royal line of David and Christ
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.