Perekh פֶּ֫רֶךְ

Perekh (Hebrew פֶּ֫רֶךְ, Strong's H6531) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “severity”. It occurs 6 times in 6 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 Perekh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 1:13
  And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
• Exodus 1:14
  And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Leviticus

• Leviticus 25:43
  Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
• Leviticus 25:46
  And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.
• Leviticus 25:53
  And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 34:4
  The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

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).