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# פֶּרֶא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6501

**wild ass** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wild ass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6501/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫רֶא: n.m. wild ass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6501/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 39:5 (m. et. f. Je 2:24, but f. prob. erron., cf. KöSynt. 157 AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 68) wild ass (prob. from swiftness);—פ׳ abs. Ho 8:9 + (so Je 2:24 Gi; van d. H. Baer פֶּרֶה, cstr. Gn 16:12; pl. פְּרָאִים Je 14:6 +;—wild ass Je 14:6; Jb 6:5; 39:5; Is 32:14 ψ 104:11; עַיִר פ׳ Jb 11:12 wild ass’s colt; פ׳ אָדָם Gn 16:12 (J) a wild ass of a man (Ishmael as a free nomad); fig. of wilfulness Ho 8:9 (v. I. בָּדַד); of lust Je 2:24 (i.e. Israel’s love of idolatry); of poor desert-dwellers Jb 24:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a wild donkey (4); wild donkeys (3); \[the\] wild donkey (1).

## In the verses

[Job 11:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.12/#tree)

וְאִ֣ישׁ נָ֭בוּב יִלָּבֵ֑ב וְעַ֥יִר פֶּ֝֗רֶא אָדָ֥ם יִוָּלֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and a.person hollow he.will.get.understanding and a.male.donkey of.a.wild.donkey a.human.being it.will.be.born

*JPS 1917:* But an empty man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.

[Job 39:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.5/#tree)

מִֽי־שִׁלַּ֣ח פֶּ֣רֶא חָפְשִׁ֑י וּמֹסְר֥וֹת עָ֝ר֗וֹד מִ֣י פִתֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* who? did.he.let.loose \[the\].wild.donkey free and.\[the\] fetters of.\[the\].wild.ass who? did.he.loosen

*JPS 1917:* Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6501.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6501/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).