פֶּרֶךְperek
harshness, severity (Leviticus 25:33; Leviticus 25:43; Leviticus 25:46; Ezekiel 34:4; Exodus 1:13)
Pronunciation: peh'-rek · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6531
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 1:13 So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy.
- Exodus 1:14 They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.
- Leviticus 25:43 Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly.
- Leviticus 25:46 passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way.
- Leviticus 25:53 The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly.
- Ezekiel 34:4 You have not taken care of the weak. You have not tended the sick or bound up the injured. You have not gone looking for those who have wandered away and are lost. Instead, you have ruled them with harshness and cruelty.
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).