Pharez (Phares / Perez)

Meaning: breakthrough; breach; bursting forth

He was a father, and the elder of twin sons of Judah (Neh. 11:4). His mother was Judah's daughter-in-law, Tamar. He was conceived as part of a revengeful deception. (Gen. 38:29; 46:12)

From him the royal line of David sprang (Ruth 4:12, 18-22). He is in the genealogy of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:3; Luke 3:33).

"The chief of all the captains of the host" was of the children of Perez (1 Chr. 27:3; Matt. 1:3).

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).