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Person

Pharez

Also called Phares, Perez

Mentioned in 15 verses across 7 books, first in Matthew 1:3. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 1721 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Dates before the time of the kings are not historically established, and scholars disagree widely about them.

Group

Tribe of Judah, Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Parents

Siblings

Zerahson of Judah (patriarch)

Half-siblings (same father)

Erson of Judah (patriarch)
Onan
Shelah

Children

Hezronson of Pharez
Hamul

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

Hezronson of Pharez7 verses
Zerahson of Judah (patriarch)4 verses
Tamar3 verses
Hamul3 verses
Judah (patriarch)3 verses
Shelah2 verses
Ramson of Hezron2 verses
Uthaison of Ammihud1 verse
Amariahson of Shephatiah1 verse
Erson of Judah (patriarch)1 verse
Omrison of Imri1 verse
Shephatiahson of Mahalaleel1 verse
Ammihudson of Omri1 verse
Calebson of Hezron1 verse

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Jerusalem2 shared verses
Canaan1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 1 verse in Matthew, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Matthew

Matthew 1:3
Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.

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Events

Events the dataset lists Pharez as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 1721 BC
Birth of PerezGenesis 38:29

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

'=Pharez, (q.v.), breach, the son of Judah (Neh. 11:4). “The chief of all the captains of the host for the first month” in the reign of David was taken from his family (1 Chr. 27:3). Four hundred and sixty-eight of his “sons” came back from captivity with Zerubbabel, who himself was one of them (1 Chr. 9:4; Neh. 11:6).

In the Bible

Matthew

Events

Dictionary

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