Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
φαρές
- Transliteration
- phares
- Indexed occurrences
- 0
Glosses
peres
Lexicon definition
"peres", a half
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Peres
Divided, one of the mysterious words "written over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall" of king Belshazzar's palace (Dan. 5:28). This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Peres
Divided, one of the mysterious words "written over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall" of king Belshazzar's palace (Dan. 5:28). (See [466]MENE.)
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources
Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Peres
Indexed occurrences: 1
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All Scripture references1 references
Daniel 1
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- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
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Ossifrage
Heb. peres = to "break" or "crush", the lammer-geier, or bearded vulture, the largest of the whole vulture tribe. It was an unclean bird (Lev. 11:13; Deut. 14:12). It is not a gregarious bird, and is found but rarely in Palestine. "When the other vultures have picked the flesh off any animal, he comes in at the end of the feast, and swallows the bones, or breaks them, and swallows the pieces if he cannot otherwise extract the marrow. The bones he cracks [hence the appropriateness of the name ossifrage, i.e., "bone-breaker"] by letting them fall on a rock from a great height. He does not, however, confine himself to these delicacies, but whenever he has an opportunity will devour lambs, kids, or hares. These he generally obtains by pushing them over cliffs, when he has watched his opportunity; and he has been known to attack men while climbing rocks, and dash them against the bottom. But tortoises and serpents are his ordinary food...No doubt it was a lammer-geier that mistook the bald head of the poet AEschylus for a stone, and dropped on it the tortoise which killed him" (Tristram's Nat. Hist.).
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Peres
Divided, one of the mysterious words "written over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall" of king Belshazzar's palace (Dan. 5:28). (See [466]MENE.)
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