# H6556 פֶּרֶץ

פֶּרֶץ (perets), Strong’s H6556: a break (literally or figuratively) KJV: breach, breaking forth (in), [idiom] forth, gap.. Occurs 19 times.

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*perets* — a break (literally or figuratively)

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

Derived from [פָּרַץ pârats](https://besorah.bible/word/H6555) (to break out)

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- פֶּ֫רֶץ n.m. bursting forth, breach

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 38:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=29) — As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?”…
- [Judges 21:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/21?v=15) — The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
- [2 Samuel 5:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/5?v=20) — David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “The LORD has broken my enemies before me, like…
- [2 Samuel 6:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/6?v=8) — David was displeased because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah to this day.
- [1 Kings 11:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/11?v=27) — This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his…
- [Isaiah 30:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=13) — therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes…
- [Isaiah 58:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=12) — Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You…
- [Ezekiel 13:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/13?v=5) — You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the LORD’s…
- [Ezekiel 22:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/22?v=30) — “I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would…
- [Amos 4:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/4?v=3) — You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,”…