Strong's #6556: perets (pronounced peh'-rets)

from 6555; a break (literally or figuratively):--breach, breaking forth (in), X forth, gap.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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perets

1) breach, gap, bursting forth

1a) bursting forth, outburst

1b) breach

1c) broken wall

1d) outburst (figuratively of God' s wrath)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6555

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Genesis 38:29: "and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez."
Judges 21:15: "because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel."
2 Samuel 5:20: "mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called"
2 Samuel 6:8: "because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the"
1 Kings 11:27: "Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father."
1 Chronicles 13:11: "because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called"
1 Chronicles 14:11: "upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called"
Nehemiah 6:1: "the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that"
Job 16:14: "He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant."
Job 16:14: "He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant."
Job 30:14: "They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves"
Psalms 106:23: "his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy"
Psalms 144:14: "That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out ; that there be no complaining"
Isaiah 28:21: "the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do"
Isaiah 30:13: "this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall,"
Isaiah 58:12: "of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell"
Ezekiel 13:5: "Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel"
Ezekiel 22:30: "them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not"
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: "that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days"