בַּ֫עַל פְּרָצִים
Baal-perazim
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Baal-perazim’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1188 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew name בעל פרצים centers on the idea of “Baal-perazim.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to 2 Samuel (50%), then 1 Chronicles. Its earliest occurrence is 2 Samuel 5:20. For the data behind this summary, explore 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1188 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Samuel 1 verse 50%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 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: Baalperazim 4×
- American Standard Version: Baal-perazim 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Baal-perazim 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Baal perazim 4×, Baal 2×, Perazim 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1188 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1188 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1188 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1188 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB 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.
- Baal-perazim = "lord of the breaks"
- the site of a victory of David over the Philistines…
Word origin
בַּ֫עַל פְּרָצִים n.pr.loc. ( possessor of breaches ) where David defeated Philist.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בעל (baʻal) (H1167) — husband.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H1188 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/בַֽעַל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 14:11 | 2 |
| בַּ֥עַל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 14:11 | 2 |
| פְּרָצִֽים | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 14:11 | 2 |
| פְּרָצִים֮ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 14:11 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1188, 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
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בעל Baʻal H1168 Baal
- בעל המון Baʻal Hâmôwn H1174 Baal-hamon
- בעל חנן Baʻal Chânân H1177 Baal-hanan
- בעל חצור Baʻal Châtsôwr H1178 Baal-hazor
- בעל חרמון Baʻal Chermôwn H1179 Baal-hermon
- בעלי Baʻălîy H1180 Baali
- בעליה Bᵉʻalyâh H1183 Bealiah
- בעלי יהודה Baʻălêy Yᵉhûwdâh H1184 Baale-Judah
- בעל תמר Baʻal Tâmâr H1193 Baal-tamar
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 9 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 (Baal-perazim). 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
Baal having rents, bursts, or destructions, the scene of a victory gained by David over the Philistines (2 Sam. 5:20; 1 Chr. 14:11). Called Mount Perazim (Isa. 28:21). It was near the valley of Rephaim, west of Jerusalem. Identified with the modern Jebel Aly.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
god of divisions
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
