# פֶּרֶץ (perets)

Israeli respelling: pe-rets. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6556. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

a break (literally or figuratively)

King James renderings: breach, breaking forth (in), [idiom] forth, gap.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/perets-h6556

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 38:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/29) — And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be…
- [Judges 21:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/15) — And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
- [2 Samuel 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/20) — And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach…
- [2 Samuel 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/6/8) — And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
- [1 Kings 11:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/27) — And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his…
- [1 Chronicles 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/13/11) — And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
- [1 Chronicles 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/14/11) — So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the bre…
- [Nehemiah 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/1) — Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, an…
- [Job 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/14) — He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- [Job 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/14) — They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
- [Psalms 106:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/23) — Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he shou…
- [Psalms 144:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/14) — That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
- [Isaiah 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/13) — Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instan…
- [Isaiah 58:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/12) — And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be…
- [Ezekiel 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/5) — Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
- [Ezekiel 22:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/30) — And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it…
- [Amos 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/3) — And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
- [Amos 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/11) — In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I…