6531 - perek

Strong's Concordance

Original word: פָּ֫רֶך
Transliteration: perek
Definition (short): severity
Definition (full): harshness, severity

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from an unused word
Definition: harshness, severity
NASB Translation: rigorously (2), severity (4).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From an unused root meaning to break apart; fracture, i.e. Severity -- cruelty, rigour.
KJV: And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
NASB: The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously;
KJV: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
NASB: and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them.
KJV: Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
NASB: 'You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.
KJV: And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
NASB: 'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.
KJV: And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
NASB: 'Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight.