Word

פְּרִיץ

pᵉrîyts · H6530 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

ferocious

State in which an animal is extremely aggressive

Examples
Isaiah 35:9 No lion will be there, Nor will any vicious animal go up on it; They will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there,
violent person, ruffian

A person engaging in violence

Examples
Psalm 17:4 As for the works of mankind, by the word of Your lips I have kept from the ways of the violent.
Jeremiah 7:11 “Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I Myself have seen it,” declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:22 ‘I will also turn My face away from them, and they will profane My treasure; then robbers will enter and profane it.

How it’s used In 3 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

2 occurrences in 2 groups

חַיalive, living 1
עַםpeople 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עָלָהto go up 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 1
מְעָרָהcave 1
אֹרַחpath, way 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Evil002001002007: פְּרִיץ describes a violent or ravenous character, as of the ways of the violent the psalmist has avoided in Psalm 17:4, and the violent son who sheds blood in Ezekiel 18:10.
People001001003: The word denotes a robber or violent person, as of the den of robbers Jeremiah accuses the temple of becoming in Jeremiah 7:11, and the robbers who enter and profane the LORD's treasure in Ezekiel 7:22.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פָּרַץ pârats · H6555 · to burst, to break, to breach · 49×פֶּרֶץ perets · H6556 · breach, gap, breaking through · 19×פְּרִיץpᵉrîyts · H6530מִפְרָץ miphrâts · H4664 · landing · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6530. parits מָּרִיץ noun masculine violent one (robber, murderer); — ׳פ דָּם שֹׁפֵךְ…

H6530. parits
מָּרִיץ noun masculine violent one (robber, murderer); — ׳פ דָּם שֹׁפֵךְ Eze 18:10 פ ׳אָרְחוֺת Psa 17:4 plural מָּרִיצִים Eze 7:22, מָּרִצִים מְעָרַת Jer 7:11 construct עֲמְּךָ מָּרִיצֵי בְּנֵי Dan 11:14; of wild beast, חַיוֺת מְּרִיץ Isa 35:9.
II. פרץ (√ of following; compare Arabic notch, make mark by notching; gap by which boats ascend, unload, or are stationed; mouth of river or inlet).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

People5 occurrences Evil1 occurrence

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0