Lexicon :: Strong's H6556 - pereṣ

But then he pulled his hand back, out came his brother, and she said, “What a breakout you have made for yourself! ” So he was named Perez.[fn]

The people had compassion on Benjamin, because the LORD had made this gap in the tribes of Israel.

So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated them there and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” Therefore, he named that place The Lord Bursts Out.[fn]

David was angry because of the LORD’s outburst against Uzzah, so he named that place Outburst Against Uzzah,[fn] as it is today.

and this is the reason he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the opening in the wall of the city of his father David.

David was angry because of the LORD’s outburst against Uzzah, so he named that place Outburst Against Uzzah,[fn] as it is still named today.

So the Israelites went up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated the Philistines there. Then David said, “Like a bursting flood, God has used me to burst out against my enemies.” Therefore, they named that place The Lord Bursts Out.[fn]

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that no gap was left in it ​— ​though at that time I had not installed the doors in the city gates ​— ​

He breaks through my defenses again and again;[fn]

he charges at me like a warrior.

They advance as through a gaping breach;

they keep rolling in through the ruins.

So he said he would have destroyed them —

if Moses his chosen one

had not stood before him in the breach

to turn his wrath away from destroying them.

Our cattle will be well fed.[fn]

There will be no breach in the walls,

no going into captivity,[fn]

and no cry of lament in our public squares.

“this iniquity of yours will be

like a crumbling gap,

a bulge in a high wall

whose collapse will come in an instant ​— ​suddenly!

“Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins;

you will restore the foundations laid long ago;

you will be called the repairer of broken walls,

the restorer of streets where people live.

“You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the LORD.

“I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.

You will go through breaches in the wall,

each woman straight ahead,

and you will be driven along toward Harmon.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

In that day

I will restore the fallen shelter of David:

I will repair its gaps,

restore its ruins,

and rebuild it as in the days of old,