Pere פֶּ֫רֶא

Pere (Hebrew פֶּ֫רֶא, Strong's H6501) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “wild donkey”. It occurs 10 times in 10 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Pere, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 16:12
  And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Job

• Job 6:5
  Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
• Job 11:12
  For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
• Job 24:5
  Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
• Job 39:5
  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

Psalms

• Psalm 104:11
  They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 32:14
  Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 2:24
  A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
• Jeremiah 14:6
  And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

Hosea

• Hosea 8:9
  For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).