Hebrew word · H6558

פַּרְצִי

hapartzi

Perezite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

Someone descended from Perez who was a man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.38.29;

son of: Judah (H3063) and Tamar (H8559);

brother of: Zerah (H2226I);

half-brother of: Er (H6147), Onan (H0209) and Shelah (H7956);

father of: Hezron (H2696H) and Hamul (H2538)

Group of pe.rets (פֶּ֫רֶץ "Perez" H6557)

§ Pharzites, of Pharez "breach"

the descendants of Pharez, the son of Judah by Tamar

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 26:20 הַפַּרְצִ֑י the Perezite[s]

    These were the descendants of Judah by their clans: The Shelanite clan from Shelah, the Perezite clan from Perez, and the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

    Here: The group name for Perez's descendants. Verse 21 shows this clan was itself large enough to have sub-clans (Hezronites, Hamulites).

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