Perez, Pharez
Perez, Pharez
perez, farez (, perec, breach): One of the twins born to Judah by Tamar, Zerah’s brother (Gen 38:29, Gen 38:30). In the King James Version Mat 1:3 and Luk 3:33, he is called Phares, the name in 1 Esdras 5:5. He is Pharez in the King James Version Gen 46:12; Num 26:20, Num 26:21; Rth 4:12, Rth 4:18; 1Ch 2:4, 1Ch 2:5; 1Ch 4:1; 1Ch 9:4. In the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) 1Ch 27:3; Neb 1Ch 11:4, 1Ch 11:6, he is Perez. He is important through the fact that by way of Ruth and Boaz and so through Jesse and David his genealogy comes upward to the Saviour. The patronymic Pharzite occurs in Num 26:20 the King James Version.
Perezites (Num 16:20, the King James Version Pharzites). The patronymic of the name Perez.