Pharez

Breach, the elder of the twin sons of Judah (Gen. 38:29). From him the royal line of David sprang (Ruth 4:18-22). “The chief of all the captains of the host” was of the children of Perez (1 Chr. 27:3; Matt. 1:3).

(Perez, (1 Chronicles 27:3) Phares, (Matthew 1:3; Luke 3:33) 1 Esd. 5:6), twin son, with Zarah or Zerah, of Judah and Tamer his daughter-in-law. (B.C. 1730.) The circumstances of his birth are detailed in Gen. 38. Pharez occupied the rank of Judah’s second son, and from two of his sons sprang two new chief houses, those of the Hezronites and Hamulites. From Hezron’s second son Ram, or Aram, sprang David and the kings of Judah, and eventually Jesus Christ. In the reign of David the house of Pharez seems to have been eminently distinguished.

PHA'REZ (a breach), a son of Judah, and twin-brother of Zarah, Gen 38:29; Gen 46:12, the ancestor of a great family called the Pharzites, Num 26:20; Ruth 4:12, 1 Sam 30:18; 1 Chr 2:4; 1 Chr 4:1; 1 Chr 9:4; called Perez in Neh 11:4, 1 Chr 24:6, and Phares in Matt 1:3; Luke 3:33.

division; rupture

PHA'REZ (a breach), a son of Judah, and twin-brother of Zarah, Gen 38:29; Gen 46:12, the ancestor of a great family called the Pharzites, Num 26:20; Ruth 4:12, 1 Sam 30:18; 1 Chr 2:4; 1 Chr 4:1; 1 Chr 9:4; called Perez in Neh 11:4, 1 Chr 24:6, and Phares in Matt 1:3; Luke 3:33.