פֶּרֶץ
pereṣ
bursting forth
Strong's H6556NounHebrewTWOT 1826a

פֶּרֶץ (pereṣ) is a Hebrew noun meaning bursting forth. It appears 19 times in 11 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H6556).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1826a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1826a)bursting forth, breach; break; breaking forth, gap
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

פֶּ֫רֶץ noun, masculine: bursting forth, breach

Strong's H6556 פֶּרֶץ: a break (literally or figuratively)
KJV:breach, breaking forth (in), × forth, gap.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1826: פָּרַץ pāraṣ — break through; break, burst out, down, break into, break open, break up, break in pieces, break out, upon, use violence, break over, increase, burst open, spread; no vision spread abroad; who break away; breach, breaker…

See it in Scripture

Genesis 38:29Judges 21:152 Samuel 5:20

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