פֶּרֶקpereq
rapine; also a fork (in roads)
Pronunciation: peh'-rek · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6563
Meanings
1. parting of ways (Obadiah 1:14)
2. plunder, (as snatched away) (Nahum 3:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Obadiah 1:14 You should not have stood at the crossroads, killing those who tried to escape. You should not have captured the survivors and handed them over in their terrible time of trouble.
- Nahum 3:1 What sorrow awaits Nineveh, the city of murder and lies! She is crammed with wealth and is never without victims.
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).