בַּעַל פְּרָצִיםBaʻal Pᵉrâtsîym
proper name [of a location]: where David defeated Philistines, site unknown (2 Samuel 5:20; 1 Chronicles 14:11)
Pronunciation: bah'-al per-aw-tseem' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1188
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 5:20 So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The Lord did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”).
- 1 Chronicles 14:11 So David and his troops went up to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “God did it!” David exclaimed. “He used me to burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So they named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”).
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).