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# פֶּרֶץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6556

**bursting forth** — used 19 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

bursting forth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6556/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫רֶץ: n.m. bursting forth, breach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6556/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 30:14 bursting forth, breach; abs. פ׳ Ju 21:15 +, פָּ֑רֶץ Gn 38:29 +; cstr. פֶּרֶץ 2 S 5:20 +; pl. פְּרָצִים Am 4:3 +, פְּרָצוֹת Ez 13:5, sf. פִּרְצֵיהֶן Am 9:11 (פְּרָצֶיהָ We Now);— bursting forth, outburst, of water 2 S 5:20 = 1 Ch 14:11; from womb Gn 38:29 (J). breach in wall Am 4:3; 1 K 11:27; Ne 6:1 ψ 144:14; Jb 30:14; so (c. גָּדַר, i.e. repair) Am 9:11; Is 58:12; fig. of effort to avert calamity, עָלָה בַּפְּרָצוֹה Ez 13:5 (‖ גָּדַר), עָמַד בַּפֶּרֶץ 22:30 (‖ id.), cf. ψ 106:23, by instruction and (especially) intercession. broken wall, פ׳ נֹפֵל Is 30:13. fig. of outburst of י׳’s wrath, acc. cogn. c. פָּרַץ 2 S 6:8 = 1 Ch 13:11; Jb 16:14 (פֶרֶץ עַל־פְנֵי־פָ֑רֶץ); עָשָׂה פ׳ בְּ Ju 21:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a breach (8); a breaking out (4); breaches (3).

## In the verses

[Job 30:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.14/#tree)

כְּפֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה הִתְגַּלְגָּֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* like a.breach wide they.come under devastation they.have.rolled.themselves

*JPS 1917:* As through a wide breach they come; in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.

[Job 16:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.14/#tree)

יִפְרְצֵ֣נִי פֶ֭רֶץ עַל־פְּנֵי־פָ֑רֶץ יָרֻ֖ץ עָלַ֣י כְּגִבּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* he breaks.through.me a.breach on \[the\].face of.a.breach he.runs on me like a.warrior

*JPS 1917:* He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6556.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6556/): 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).