Φαρές
Perez
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Perez’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G5329 appears in the Book of Matthew — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
Φαρες (Pháres) is a Greek name most often rendered “Perez.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Debuting at Matthew 1:3, it then recurs through the corpus. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5329 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Phares 2×
- American Standard Version: Perez 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Perez 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Perez 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5329 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5329 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5329 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5329 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Pharez = "a breach"
- the son of Judah and Tamar, his daughter-in-law
Word origin
Derived from פרץ (Perets) (H6557) — Perez.
Of hebrew origin [ H6557 ]; Phares (that is Perets ) an Israelite : - Phares.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5329, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Perez). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
=Pharez, (q.v.), breach, the son of Judah (Neh. 11:4). "The chief of all the captains of the host for the first month" in the reign of David was taken from his family (1 Chr. 27:3). Four hundred and sixty-eight of his "sons" came back from captivity with Zerubbabel, who himself was one of them (1 Chr. 9:4; Neh. 11:6).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(breach). The "children of Perez," or Pharez, the son of Judah, appear to have been a family of importance for many centuries. (1 Chronicles 27:3; Nehemiah 11:4,6)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
divided
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Φαρες appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 6 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 38:29 φαρες
- Numbers 26:16 φαρες
- Ruth 4:12 φαρες
- 1 Chronicles 2:4 φαρες
- Ezra 21:4 φαρες
- Daniel 4:29 φαρες
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5329) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 38:29 φαρες It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
- Genesis 46:12 φαρες The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
- Numbers 26:16 φαρες of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
- Numbers 26:17 φαρες of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
- Numbers 33:19 φαρες They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.
- Numbers 33:20 φαρες They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.
- Ruth 4:12 φαρες and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman.
- Ruth 4:18 φαρες Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
- 1 Chronicles 2:4 φαρες Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
- 1 Chronicles 2:5 φαρες The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.
- 1 Chronicles 4:1 φαρες The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
- 1 Chronicles 7:16 φαρες Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
- 1 Chronicles 9:4 φαρες Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
- 1 Chronicles 27:3 φαρες [He was] of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.
- Ezra 21:4 φαρες
- Ezra 21:6 φαρες
- Daniel 4:29 φαρες At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5329) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
