Lexical Definition

‎פֶּרֶא‎ pereʼ (peh'-reh) wild donkey ^H:N-M
or פֶּרֶה pereh (peh'-reh); (Jeremiah 2:24), from ‎פָּרָא‎ in the secondary sense of running wild

wild (ass).

• the onager

1) wild ass

See Greek: ἄγριος · ὄνος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎פֶּ֫רֶא‎ noun masculine^{Job 39:5} (masculine and feminine Jer 2:24, but feminine probably erroneous, compare Kö^{Synt. 157} Albr^{ZAW xvi (1896), 68}) wild ass (probably from swiftness); — ‎׳‎‎פ‎ absolute Hos 8:9 + (so Jer 2:24 Gi; van d. H. Baer ‎פֶּרֶךְ‎), construct Gen 16:12 plural ‎פְּרָאִים‎ Jer 14:6 +; — wild ass Jer 14:6; Job 6:5; Job 39:5; Isa 32:14; Ps 104:11 ‎׳‎‎עַיִר פ‎ Job 11:12 wild ass's colt; ‎אָדָם‎ ‎׳‎‎פ‎ Gen 16:12 (J) a wild ass of a man (Ishmael as a free nomad); figurative of wilfulness Hos 8:9 (see I. ‎בָּדַד‎); of lust Jer 2:24 (i.e. Israel's love of idolatry); of poor desert-dwellers Job 24:5.

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