Twin son of Yehudah and Tamar; in the birth, his twin Zerach's hand emerged first and was marked with a scarlet thread, but Peretz 'broke through' (paratz) and was born first — hence his name (Genesis 38:27–30)
Listed among the seventy who went down to Egypt with Yaakov, already with his own two sons Chetzron and Chamul (Genesis 46:12)
Father of the Peretzite clan (Numbers 26:20–21)
Direct ancestor of David and of Yeshua (Ruth 4:18–22, Matthew 1:3, Luke 3:33)
Invoked as a blessing formula in Ruth 4:12 — 'let your house be like the house of Peretz'
“He broke through first — twin son of Yehudah and Tamar, ancestor of David”
Traditional note: 1 Chronicles 2:5 names Peretz's two sons as Chetzron and Chamul; Chamul's line is not pursued in this dataset (out of scope, not part of the Davidic spine) and has no entry. Peretz's twin brother Zerach now has his own entry in this dataset (id 'zerach', Batch E2, genealogy_position 24, line_status 'Messianic-line-sibling') — 1 Chronicles 2:6 names Zerach's sons (Zimri, Eitan, Heman, Calcol, Dara) as a separate, non-Davidic branch, discussed there.
