פֶּרֶא
pereʼ · H6501 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Thing
- Wild assMammals12 verses
Meanings
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wild donkey, onager
Wild donkey of a relatively large size but with relatively small ears; it has a fawn color with a whitish chest and belly; Persian Wild Ass or Onager, Equus hemonius; associated with both untameable wildness and sexual desire
ExamplesGenesis 16:12 “But he will be a wild donkey of a man; His hand will be against everyone, And everyone’s hand will be against him; And he will live in defiance of all his brothers.”
Job 6:5 “Does the wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox low over his feed?
Job 11:12 “An idiot will become intelligent When a wild donkey is born a human.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָדָםhuman, humankind, human being(s) 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- לִמּוּדdisciple, taught 1
- בָּדַדto be alone 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- נָהַקto bray 1
- עָמַדto stand 1
- שָׁבַרto break, to shatter 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מָשׂוֹשׂjoy 1
- עַיִרyoung male donkey 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- עָרוֹד ʻârôwd · H6171 · wild ass, wild donkey
- Another Hebrew term for wild donkey, used poetically and interchangeably with פֶּרֶא in passages like Job 39:5 where both terms appear in parallel.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wild Animals001001002001
- פֶּרֶא denotes a wild donkey, an untamed creature of the wilderness, as of Ishmael described as a wild donkey of a man in Genesis 16:12, and the wild donkey's freedom celebrated in the LORD's questioning of Job in Job 39:5.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6501. pere מֶּ֫רֶא noun masculineJob 39:5 (masculine and feminine Jer 2:24, but feminine…
מֶּ֫רֶא noun masculineJob 39:5 (masculine and feminine Jer 2:24, but feminine probably erroneous, compare KöSynt. 157 AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 68) wild ass (probably from swiftness); — ׳פ absolute Hos 8:9 + (so Jer 2:24 Gi; van d. H. Baer מֶּרֶךְ), construct Gen 16:12; plural מְּרָאִים Jer 14:6 +; — wild ass Jer 14:6; Job 6:5; Job 39:5; Isa 32:14; Psa 104:11; פ ׳עַיִר Job 11:12 wild ass's colt; ׳פ אָדָם 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.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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