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pe.rets H6556

פֶּ֫רֶץ (pe.rets) means “breach” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

פֶּ֫רֶץ Hebrew · H6556 19 tagged occurrences in 18 verses

Pronunciation guide: peh'-rets Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H6556

פֶּ֫רֶץ · pe.rets · breach

1) breach, gap, bursting forth 1a) bursting forth, outburst 1b) breach 1c) broken wall 1d) outburst (fig. of God's wrath)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H6555 (פָּרַץ)lemma פּרַץ missing vowel, corrected to פָּרַץ; a break (literally or figuratively)

KJV glosses: breach, breaking forth (in), [idiom] forth, gap.

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How translators render H6556

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
like a bursting 2
a breach 1
a gap 1
a void 1
breach 1
breach in the walls 1
in the breach 1
in the gap 1
its gaps 1
of the breach 1
the gap in the wall 1
through broken walls 1
to the gaps 1
with wound 1
wound 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
a breach 3
breach 2
the breaches 2
at the breaches 1
breaking 1
him in the breach 1
in the gap 1
into the gaps 1
like the breaking forth 1
me as the breach 1
me with breach 1
no breaking in 1
of the breach 1
shall be to you as a breach 1
there was no breach 1

Verses containing H6556

Page 1 of 1. 18 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 38:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.

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  2. Judges 21:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

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  3. 2 Samuel 5:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.

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  4. 2 Samuel 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah. So he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

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  5. 1 Kings 11:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

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  6. 1 Chronicles 13:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah. So he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

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  7. 1 Chronicles 14:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that place Baal-perazim.

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  8. Nehemiah 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

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  9. Job 16:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

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  10. Job 30:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

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  11. Psalms 106:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

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  12. Psalms 144:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

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  13. Isaiah 30:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!

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  14. Isaiah 58:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

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  15. Ezekiel 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.

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  16. Ezekiel 22:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

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  17. Amos 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.

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  18. Amos 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

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