פֶּרֶךְ
perech · harshness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6531 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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perech (פֶּרֶךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “harshness”.
Cruelty with which someone is made to work.
How to say it
pe·rech
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
- Merciless treatment in making someone work.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- harshness ×4
- ruthlessly ×1
- was ruthless ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 1:13
The Egyptians made the sons of Israel work ruthlessly,
- Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, with mortar and with bricks and with every kind of work in the field; all their work in which they made them work was ruthless.
- Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your Elohim.
- Leviticus 25:46
And you may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession; forever you may make them serve; but over your brothers, the sons of Israel, one over another you shall not rule with harshness.
- Leviticus 25:53
As a hired worker year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness before your eyes.
- Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up, and the strayed you have not brought back, and the lost you have not sought; but with force you have ruled them, and with harshness.