פֶּ֫רֶז
chieftain
also: leader, warrior 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
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6518 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Habakkuk 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 noun פרז centers on the idea of “chieftain.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Habakkuk dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Habakkuk 3:14. BDB distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “chieftain” it spans “leader” and “warrior”. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6518 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Habakkuk 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
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: Villages 1×
- American Standard Version: Warriors 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Warriors 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: His 1×, Warriors 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6518 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6518 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6518 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6518 across 2 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.
- chieftain, leader, warrior
- meaning dubious
Word origin
[ פֶּ֫רֶז or פָּרָז ] n.[m.] Hb 3:14, text and meaning dub.; warriors or leaders would suit context.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to separate, i.e. decide
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פָּרַז
- to break through, open, v. פָּרוּז.
- 1. to break through, go beyond. Nidd. 4ᵇ ה׳ על מדותיו went beyond his measures, i.e. extended the restrictions of the law too far. Ned. 32ᵃ ה׳ על מדותיו של הקב"ה he went too far in testing the attributes (goodness) of the Lord, i.e. presumed on God’s kindness by asking for a sign (Gen. XV, 8); Yalk. Gen. 74. Koh. R. to VIII, 8 מַפְרִיזִין באצבעותיהן וכ׳ pointed with their fingers towards a distance, saying, the vision which he sees &c. (Ez. XII, 27); (Lam. R. introd. (R. Ḥan. 1) ומורין, v. יָרָה). e.g. Genesis 15:8
- 2. to offer a higher rent than originally stipulated in consideration of a loan to be used to improve the property. B. Mets. V, 5 ומַפְרִיז על שדהו וכ׳ (Var. ומַפְרִין; Ms. M. ומפרי׳; Y. ed. ומפרין) and a tenant may offer higher rent for his field in consideration of a loan for improvements, and need not regard the appearance of usury. Ib. 69ᵇ אין מפריז לא על חנות וכ׳ (Ms. M. everywhere מפרין) you dare not offer higher rent for a shop or a ship in consideration of a loan (to be invested in the business); Y. ib. V, 10ᶜ top מפרין; v. פָּרָה a. פָּרַן.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H6518 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| פְּרָזָ֔י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Habakkuk 3:14 | 1 |
| פרז/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Habakkuk 3:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6518, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse 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
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