perets · breach

What it means

perets (פֶּרֶץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “breach”.

Opening made by breaking through.

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 gap broken in a wall.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• breach ×15
• breaches ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×2

• Genesis 38:29

  But as he drew back his hand, look, his brother came out; and she said, “What a breach you have broken for yourself!” So he called his name Perez.

• Judges 21:15

  And the people had compassion on Benjamin, for YHWH had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 5:20

  David came to Baal-perazim, and David struck them there; and he said, “YHWH has made a breach in my enemies before me, like a breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

• 2 Samuel 6:8

  David was angry because YHWH had made a breach against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-uzzah, to this day.

• 1 Kings 11:27

  And this was the matter for which he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built the Millo and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.

• 1 Chronicles 13:11

  David was angry because YHWH had made a breach against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-uzzah, to this day.

• 1 Chronicles 14:11

  They went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them there; and David said, “Elohim has made a breach in my enemies by my hand, like a breach of waters.” Therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

• Nehemiah 6:1

  It happened that when it was heard by Sanballat and Tobiah, and by Geshem the Arab and by the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and no breach was left in it —though up to that time I had not set up doors in the gates—

• Job 16:14

  He breaks through me, breach upon breach; he runs at me like a mighty man.

• Job 30:14

  As through a wide breach they come; under the desolation they roll about.

• Psalms 106:23

  And he said he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn back his fury from destroying.

• Psalms 144:14

  our oxen heavily loaded; no breach and no going out, and no outcry in our squares.

• Isaiah 30:13

  therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach about to fall, bulging out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

• Isaiah 58:12

  And those from you will build the ancient ruins; the foundations of generation after generation you will raise up; and you will be called ‘Repairer of breaches, restorer of paths to live in.’

• Ezekiel 13:5

  You have not gone up into the breaches nor built up a wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of YHWH.

• Ezekiel 22:30

  And I sought among them a man who would build up a wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I did not find one.

• Amos 4:3

  And through the breaches you will go out, each woman straight ahead of her; and you will be cast to Harmon, declares YHWH.

• Amos 9:11

  On that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, and wall up their breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old;

And 1 more times.