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פֶּרֶק

pereq · H6563 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. plunder, booty

    Literally: breaking off; hence: action by which humans take with force objects of value that belong to others

    Examples

    Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey does not leave.

  2. crossroads, junction, fork

    Literally: breaking off; hence, probably: a place where roads divide

    Examples

    Obadiah 1:14 “Do not stand at the crossroads To eliminate their survivors; And do not hand over their refugees On the day of their distress.

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

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
Possess002003002019
פֶּרֶק denotes plunder or spoil, the goods seized by robbery, as of the pillage taken from the bloody city condemned in Nahum 3:1.
Roads001003002007
The word also denotes a crossroads, as of the crossroads where Edom is told not to stand and cut down fugitives in Obadiah 1:14.
Word family 5 words

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

פָּרַק pâraq · H6561 · to break off, to tear off, to pull off · 10×פֶּרֶקpereq · H6563מִפְרֶקֶת miphreqeth · H4665 · neck-bone(s) · 1×פְּרַק pᵉraq · H6562 · break off · 1×פָּרָק pârâq · H6564 · (torn off) pieces (of meat) · 0×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6563. pereq מֶּ֫רֶק noun [masculine] 1 parting of ways, Obadiah 14.. 2 plunder (as…
H6563. pereq
מֶּ֫רֶק noun [masculine]
1 parting of ways, Obadiah 14..
2 plunder (as snatched away), Nah 3:1.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Roads1 occurrencePossess1 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

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