Occurrences
Pereʼ occurs 10 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Job (4), Psalms (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (2), Hosea (1)
- Genesis 16:12 — And he will be a wild (פֶּ֣רֶא) man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
- Job 6:5 — Doth the wild ass (פֶּ֥רֶא) bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
- Job 11:12 — For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s (פֶּ֝֗רֶא) colt.
- Job 24:5 — Behold, as wild asses (פְּרָאִ֨ים) in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
- Job 39:5 — Who hath sent out the wild ass (פֶּ֣רֶא) free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
- Psalms 104:11 — They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses (פְרָאִ֣ים) quench their thirst.
- Isaiah 32:14 — Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses (פְּרָאִ֖ים), a pasture of flocks;
- Jeremiah 2:24 — A wild ass (פֶּ֣רֶה) used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
- Jeremiah 14:6 — And the wild asses (וּפְרָאִים֙) did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
- Hosea 8:9 — For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass (פֶּ֖רֶא) alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.