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Strong's numbers

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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  • Job 33:31
    Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
  • Job 33:33
    If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
  • Job 41:12
    I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
  • Psalms 28:1
    A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
  • Psalms 32:3
    When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Psalms 35:22
    This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
  • Psalms 39:12
    Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • Psalms 50:3
    Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
  • Psalms 50:21
    These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
  • Psalms 83:1
    A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.