Lexical Definition

‎פֶּרֶץ‎ perets (peh'-rets) breach ^H:N-M
from ‎פָּרַץ‎

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

• a break (literally or figuratively)

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

See Greek: πίπτω · πτῶμα · φραγμός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎פֶּ֫רֶץ‎ noun masculine^{Job 30:14} bursting forth, breach; absolute ‎׳‎‎פ‎ Judg 21:15 +, ‎פָּ֑רֶץ‎ Gen 38:29 +; construct ‎פֶּרֶץ‎ 2Sam 5:20 +; plural ‎פְּרָצִים‎ Amos 4:3 +, ‎פְּרָצוֺם‎ Ezek 13:5, suffix ‎פִּרְצֵיהֶץ‎ Amos 9:11 (‎פְּרָצֶיהָ‎ We Now); —

1. bursting forth, out burst, of water 2Sam 5:20 = 1Chr 14:11 from womb Gen 38:29 (J).

2. breach in wall Amos 4:3; 1Kgs 11:27; Neh 6:1; Ps 144:14; Job 30:14 so (with ‎גָּדַר‎, i.e. repair) Amos 9:11; Isa 58:12 figurative of effect to avert calamity, ‎עָלָה בַּפְּרָצוֺת‎ Ezek 13:5 (|| ‎גָּדַר‎), ‎עָמַד בַּפֶּרֶץ‎ Ezek 22:30 (|| id.), compare Ps 106:23, by instruction and (especially) intercession.

3. broken wall, ‎נֹפֵל‎ ‎׳‎‎פ‎ Isa 30:13.

4. figurative of outburst of ‎׳‎‎י‎'s wrath, accusative of congnate meaning with verb with ‎פָּרַץ‎ 2Sam 6:8 = 1Chr 13:11; Job 16:14 (‎פֶּרֶץ עַלפְּֿנֵיפָֿ֑רֶץ‎); ‎בְּ‎ ‎׳‎‎עָשָׂה פ‎ Judg 21:15.

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