פֶּרֶךְ
perek · H6531 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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harshness, harsh rigor
State in which humans have no concern about the well-being of people or animals entrusted to their care
ExamplesExodus 1:13 The Egyptians used violence to compel the sons of Israel to labor;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲבֹדָהwork 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 10
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
- אַכְזְרִיּוּת ʼakzᵉrîyûwth · H395 · cruelty
- Both words are abstract nouns denoting cruelty or harsh treatment, and overlap in sense.
In the other Testament 2 words
- μόχθος móchthos · G3449 · hard labor, toil
- Greek μόχθος emphasizes the toilsome labor aspect of oppressive treatment, while Hebrew פֶּרֶךְ focuses directly on the harshness/cruelty of the treatment itself; the LXX translators used μόχθος to render contexts where cruel oppression manifests as burdensome forced labor.
- βία bía · G970 · force, violence
- Greek βία emphasizes forceful action or violence, while Hebrew פֶּרֶךְ specifically denotes harsh oppressive treatment or cruel servitude (particularly in Exodus labor contexts); βία renders פֶּרֶךְ's sense of violently oppressive conditions in LXX alignment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Cruel002001002004
- פֶּרֶךְ denotes cruelty or harsh rigor, as of the Egyptians who make the Israelites serve with rigor and hard labor in Exodus 1:13 and 1:14, and the LORD's command that Israel not rule over a fellow Hebrew with such rigor in Leviticus 25:43.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6531. perek מֶּ֫רֶךְ noun [masculine] harshness, severity; — in phrase ׳בְּפ Lev 25:33,…
מֶּ֫רֶךְ noun [masculine] harshness, severity; — in phrase ׳בְּפ Lev 25:33, בְּפָ֑רֶךְ Lev 25:43; Lev 25:46; (H P), Eze 34:4 (all with רדה rule harshly); Exo 1:13 (with וַיַּעֲבִדוּ), Exo 1:14 (with עֲכֹדָה; both P).
II. פרך (√ of following; compare Assyrian parâku, bar, shut off; parakku, apartment, shrine; Syriac shrine (see RSJPhil 13, 283); see also Muss-ArnJBL xi (1892), 77 Köii. 1, 201).
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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