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חָרַשׁ (H2790)

chârash

khaw-rash'

a primitive root; to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness); [idiom] altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[חָרֵשׁ] vb. 1. be silent, dumb, speechless; 2. be deaf; chiefly poet.
Qal
1 be silent, alw. of God’s keeping silence when men pray
2 be deaf
Hiph.
1 be silent (= exhibit silence)
2 once causat. make silent
3 be deaf, shew deafness
[חָרַשׁ] vb. cut in, engrave, plough, devise
Qal
1 cut in, engrave
2 plough
3 devise
Niph. Zion, as a field she shall be ploughed
Hiph. fabricating mischief against

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


66 occurrences

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  • Nehemiah 5:8
    And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
  • Esther 4:14
    For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
  • Esther 7:4
    For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
  • Job 1:14
    And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
  • Job 4:8
    Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
  • Job 6:24
    Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
  • Job 11:3
    Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
  • Job 13:5
    O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
  • Job 13:13
    Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
  • Job 13:19
    Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.