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Pharez

Also called Perez and Phares

Born 1720 BC traditional (Jones)

Breach, the elder of the twin sons of Judah (Gen. 38:29). From him the royal line of David sprang (Ruth 4:18-22). “The chief of all the captains of the host” was of the children of Perez (1 Chr. 27:3; Matt. 1:3).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Judah
Mother
Tamar
Children
Hamul, Hezron
Sibling
Zerah
Half-siblings
Er, Onan, Shelah
Tagged in
15 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Stories

1 event in which Pharez takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

  1. 1720 BCBirth of PerezGen 38:29

Places

Places named in the same verses as Pharez, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. likely location: Jerusalem2
  2. location not graded: Canaan1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 2156 BC to AD 100, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

15 tagged verses in 7 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Genesis2
  2. Numbers2
  3. Ruth2
  4. 1 Chronicles5
  5. Nehemiah2
  6. Matthew1
  7. Luke1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBPharez 0Perez 20Phares 0
KJVPharez 12Perez 5Phares 3
ASVPharez 0Perez 20Phares 0

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 15 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis2 verses
  1. 38:29

    But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.

  2. 46:12

    The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

Numbers2 verses
  1. 26:20

    These were the descendants of Judah by their clans: The Shelanite clan from Shelah, the Perezite clan from Perez, and the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

  2. 26:21

    And these were the descendants of Perez: the Hezronite clan from Hezron and the Hamulite clan from Hamul.

Ruth2 verses
  1. 4:12

    And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”

  2. 4:18

    Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

1 Chronicles5 verses
  1. 2:4

    Tamar, Judah’s daughter-in-law, bore to him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

  2. 2:5

    The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

  3. 4:1

    The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

  4. 9:4

    Uthai son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, a descendant of Perez son of Judah.

  5. 27:3

    He was a descendant of Perez and chief of all the army commanders for the first month.

Nehemiah2 verses
  1. 11:4

    while some of the descendants of Judah and Benjamin settled in Jerusalem.) From the descendants of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, a descendant of Perez;

  2. 11:6

    The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.

Matthew1 verse
  1. 1:3

    Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.

Luke1 verse
  1. 3:33

    the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Breach, the elder of the twin sons of Judah (Gen. 38:29). From him the royal line of David sprang (Ruth 4:18-22). “The chief of all the captains of the host” was of the children of Perez (1 Chr. 27:3; Matt. 1:3).