פֶּרֶשׁperesh
fecal matter, found in intestines of victim (Malachi 2:3; Exodus 29:14; Leviticus 4:11; Leviticus 8:17; Numbers 19:5)
Pronunciation: peh'-resh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6569
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 29:14 Then take the rest of the bull, including its hide, meat, and dung, and burn it outside the camp as a sin offering.
- Leviticus 4:11 But he must take whatever is left of the bull—its hide, meat, head, legs, internal organs, and dung—
- Leviticus 8:17 He took the rest of the bull, including its hide, meat, and dung, and burned it on a fire outside the camp, just as the Lord had commanded him.
- Leviticus 16:27 “The bull and the goat presented as sin offerings, whose blood Aaron takes into the Most Holy Place for the purification ceremony, will be carried outside the camp. The animals’ hides, internal organs, and dung are all to be burned.
- Numbers 19:5 As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned—its hide, meat, blood, and dung.
- Malachi 2:3 I will punish your descendants and splatter your faces with the manure from your festival sacrifices, and I will throw you on the manure pile.
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).