perach · flower, blossom

What it means

perach (פֶּרַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flower, blossom”.

Flower, bud, blossom; also a flower-shaped ornament.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A flower, or a flower-shaped ornament.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• flowers ×6
• flower ×5
• blossom ×3
• bloom ×1
• blossoms ×1
• buds ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Numbers×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Isaiah×2
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 25:31

  You shall make a lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work the lampstand shall be made: its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

• Exodus 25:33

  three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, with knob and flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the other branch, with knob and flower; so for the six branches that go out from the lampstand.

• Exodus 25:34

  And on the lampstand itself four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its knobs and its flowers;

• Exodus 37:17

  And he made the lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work he made the lampstand, its base and its shaft; its cups, its knobs, and its flowers were of one piece with it.

• Exodus 37:19

  Three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a knob and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on another branch, a knob and a flower; so for the six branches that went out from the lampstand.

• Exodus 37:20

  And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its knobs and its flowers.

• Numbers 8:4

  And this was the workmanship of the lampstand: hammered work of gold; from its base to its blossoms it was hammered work. According to the vision that YHWH had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

• Numbers 17:8

  And it happened on the next day that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and look, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and it had put forth buds and produced blossoms and ripened almonds.

• 1 Kings 7:26

  And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim like the work of the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it held two thousand baths.

• 1 Kings 7:49

  and the lampstands, five on the right and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of fine gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the snuffers, of gold;

• 2 Chronicles 4:5

  Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was like the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower; it took in and held three thousand baths.

• 2 Chronicles 4:21

  the flowers, the lamps, and the snuffers, of gold— it was perfect gold;

• Isaiah 5:24

  Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of YHWH Tsevaot and spurned the saying of the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 18:5

  For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes an unripe grape ripening, he will cut off the tendrils with pruning knives, and the spreading branches he will remove, he will cut away.

• Nahum 1:4

  He rebukes the sea and dries it up, and all the rivers he drains; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the bloom of Lebanon withers.

And 2 more times.