What Does 1 Chronicles 27:3 Mean?
Of the children of Perez was the head of all the captains of the host for the first month.
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Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.THE KEY
The chief of the first month comes from a line whose name means “breach”, so the year’s first command bears breakthrough in its name.
THE MEANING
Your beginnings can carry the mark of what has broken open: the first month’s chief belongs to Perez’s line, whose name means “breach.” The opening of a cycle is linked here to a name that holds breaking through within it.
THE ROOT
פֶּרֶץ
perets
GROWS FROM
פרץ
To break through, burst out, or make a breach.
Perez is not only a family label: פֶּרֶץ (perets, “breach”) comes from פרץ (parats, “break through”). Its root keeps the image of breaking through a boundary inside the first month’s leadership.
ALSO GROWS
parats: To break through, burst out, or spread.
פָּרַץ
The verb names the movement contained in Perez’s name: an opening made by breaking through.
peratsim: “Breaches” or “breakthroughs”; Baal-peratsim means “Lord of breaches.”
פְּרָצִים ; בַּעַל־פְּרָצִים
The same root appears in the name Baal-perazim, where the LORD is said to break through like a breach of waters (2 Samuel 5:20).
THE PATTERN
What breaks through a boundary becomes a passage that others can follow.
And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, and behold, his brother came out, and she said, How have you broken through? Let this breach be upon you. Therefore his name was called Pharez, the breach.The one who breaks through goes up before them. They break through, pass through the gate, and go out through it. Their king passes before them, and the LORD is at their head.I am the door. Through me, if anyone enters, he shall be delivered, and shall go in and out, and shall find pasture.THE THREAD
And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, and behold, his brother came out, and she said, How have you broken through? Let this breach be upon you. Therefore his name was called Pharez, the breach.Genesis names the breach Perez, from the same root פרץ (parats, “break through”) carried in this verse’s family name. The first month’s chief therefore stands within a line whose name preserves the image of an opening.
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