H1188 H1188
Baal-perazim, a place name meaning 'lord/master of breaches,' site of David's victory over the Philistines
A place name combining 'baal' (lord, master) and 'perazim' (breaches, break-throughs), commemorating David's decisive rout of the Philistines. At this site David declared, 'The LORD has broken through my enemies before me, like a breach of waters' (2 Sam 5:20). The name thus enshrines a theological wordplay: God himself was the true 'master of breaches.' The exact location remains unknown, though it lay near the Valley of Rephaim outside Jerusalem.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The proper noun designating the battlefield where David defeated the Philistines, attested in 2 Sam 5:20 and 1 Chr 14:11. The name functions as an etiological toponym: David names the place to memorialize God's breakthrough. Multilingual glosses uniformly transliterate rather than translate, preserving the Hebrew compound. Spanish adds directional prepositions ('a-Baal-Peratsim,' 'en-Baal-Peratsim') reflecting the locative uses in the text. 4×
AR["إِلَى-بَعْلَ-فَرَاصِيمَ", "بَعْلَ-فَرَاصِيمَ"]·ben["-বাল-পরাসীমে", "-মধ্যে", "বাল-পরাসীম", "বাল্-পরাৎসীম"]·DE["Baal-Peratsim", "[בבעלפרצים]", "[בעל פרצים]", "zu-Baal-Peratsim"]·EN["Baal-Peratsim", "to-Baal-Peratsim"]·FR["Baal-Peratsim", "[בבעלפרצים]", "[בעל פרצים]", "à-Baal-Peratsim"]·heb["ב-בעל-פרצים", "בבעלפרצים", "בעל פרצים", "בעל-פרצים"]·HI["बआल-परासीम", "बआल-परासीम-में", "बाल-पेरासीम"]·ID["Baal-Perasim", "Baal-Perazim", "ke-Baal-Perasim", "ke-Baal-Perazim"]·IT["Baal-Peratsim", "[בבעלפרצים]", "[בעל פרצים]", "a-Baal-Peratsim"]·jav["Baal-Perazim", "Baal-Pèrazim", "dhateng-Baal-Perazim", "ing-Baal-Pèrazim"]·KO["바알-베라시", "바알-브라심", "에-바알-베라시", "에-바알-브라심"]·PT["Ba'al-Peratsim", "Baal-Peratsim", "a-Baal-Peratsim", "em-Ba'al-Peratsim"]·RU["Бааль-Перацим", "в-Бааль-Перацим"]·ES["Baal-Peratsim", "a-Baal-Peratsim", "en-Baal-Peratsim"]·SW["Baal-Perasimu", "Baali-Perasimu"]·TR["Baal-Peratsim", "Baal-Peratsim'e"]·urd["بعل-فراصیم", "بعل-فراضیم", "بعل-فراضیم۔"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בַּ֫עַל פְּרָצִים n.pr.loc. (possessor of breaches; or Baal of Peraṣim?) where David defeated Philist. 2 S 5:20(×2) 1 Ch 14:11(×2); site unknown.