Lexical Summary perets: a bursting forth, breach Original Word: פֶרֶץTransliteration: perets Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-rets) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a bursting forth, breach Meaning: a bursting forth, breach Strong's Concordance breach, breaking forth in, forth, gap From parats; a break (literally or figuratively) -- breach, breaking forth (in), X forth, gap. see HEBREW parats Brown-Driver-Briggs H6556. perets I. מֶּ֫רֶץ noun masculineJob 30:14 bursting forth, breach; absolute ׳פ Judges 21:15 +, מָּ֑רֶץ Genesis 38:29 +; construct מֶּרֶץ 2 Samuel 5:20 +; plural מְּרָצִים Amos 4:3 +, מְּרָצוֺם Ezekiel 13:5, suffix מִּרְצֵיהֶץ Amos 9:11 (מְּרָצֶיהָ We Now); — 1 bursting forth, out burst, of water 2 Samuel 5:20 = 1 Chronicles 14:11; from womb Genesis 38:29 (J). 2 breach in wall Amos 4:3; 1 Kings 11:27; Nehemiah 6:1; Psalm 144:14; Job 30:14; so (with גָּדַר, i.e. repair) Amos 9:11; Isaiah 58:12; figurative of effect to avert calamity, בַּמְּרָצוֺת עָלָה Ezekiel 13:5 ("" גָּדַר), בַּמֶּרֶץ עָמַד 22:30 ("" id.), compare Psalm 106:23, by instruction and (especially) intercession. 3 broken wall, ׳פ נֹפֵל Isaiah 30:13. 4 figurative of outburst of ׳יs wrath, accusative of congnate meaning with verb with מָּרַץ 2 Samuel 6:8 = 1 Chronicles 13:11; Job 16:14 (עַלמְּֿנֵיפָֿ֑רֶץ מֶּרֶץ); פ ׳עָשָׂה בְּ Judges 21:15. |