פֶּרֶא
pere · wild donkey
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6501 · appears 10 times in the Bible
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pere (פֶּרֶא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wild donkey”.
Of the desert: a free animal no one tames. The image speaks of someone independent.
How to say it
pe·re
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
- A donkey of the steppe no one tames.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- wild donkey ×6
- wild donkeys ×4
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 16:12
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone, and the hand of everyone against him; and facing all his brothers he will dwell.”
- Job 6:5
Does the wild donkey bray over grass? Or does the ox low over its fodder?
- Job 11:12
And a hollow man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
- Job 24:5
Look, like wild donkeys in the wilderness they go out to their work, seeking prey; the steppe yields them bread for the boys.
- Job 39:5
Who sent out the wild donkey free, and the bonds of the onager who loosed?
- Psalms 104:11
They give drink to every animal of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
- Isaiah 32:14
For the palace is forsaken, the tumult of the city deserted; the Ophel and the watchtower have become caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
- Jeremiah 2:24
a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in the craving of her soul sniffing the wind; her heat, who can turn it back? All who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.
- Jeremiah 14:6
And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, for there is no grass.
- Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by himself; Ephraim has hired lovers.