Peres

Peres is a Portuguese, Galician, and Sephardic-Jewish surname. Its Spanish variant is Pérez.

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In the Hungarian language, it means litigant ("peres fél"). It is common in both forms Peres and Perez as well as Peretz among descendants of Sephardi Jews in Puerto Rico.

In Hebrew (פרס  [ˈpeʁes]), it is the name of the bird species "Gypaetus barbatus" (lammergeier). However, Peres, Perez, and Peretz are the transliteration of the Hebrew פרץ son of Tamar and Judah. In the biblical Book of Daniel, the words which form the "writing on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast are recorded initially as mene, mene, tekel, upharsin (Daniel 5:25) but the final word is given as peres in verse 28, where its meaning is said to be "Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians".[1]

People with the surname Peres include:

References
  1. Daniel 5:28

See also
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