Original Language Studio
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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
פֶּרֶאpereʼ · peh'-reh
H6501 · Hebrew
H6501 · Hebrew
- Definition
- the onager
- Derivation
- or פֶּרֶה; (Jeremiah 2:24), from H6500 (פָּרָא) in the secondary sense of running wild;
- KJV renderings
- wild (ass).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- פְרָאִים֙ — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 10 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 16:12Job 6:5Job 11:12Job 24:5Job 39:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read פֶּרֶא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.