פֶּ֫רֶא
pe.re
“wild donkey”
Definition
the onager
or פֶּרֶה; (Jeremiah 2:24), from H6500 (פָּרָא) in the secondary sense of running wild;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
פֶּ֫רֶא appears 10 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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 hostilitytoward all his brothers.”
For the palace will be forsaken,the busy city abandoned.The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeysand a pasture for flocks—
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.
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,the poor go to work foraging for food;the wasteland is food for their children.
Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass,or an ox low over its fodder?
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.