Perez; Pharez

pe'-rez, fa'-rez (perets, "breach"): One of the twins born to Judah by Tamar, Zerah's brother (Gen 38:29; Gen 38:30). In the King James Version Matt 1:3 and Luke 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; Ruth 4:12; Ruth 4:18; 1 Chr 2:4; 1 Chr 2:5; 1 Chr 4:1; 1 Chr 9:4. In the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) 1 Chr 27:3; Neh 11:4; Neh 11:6, he is "Perez." He is important through the fact that by way of Ru 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.

Henry Wallace