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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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  • Amos 6:12
    Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
  • Amos 9:13
    Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
  • Micah 3:12
    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
  • Micah 7:16
    The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
  • Habakkuk 1:13
    Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
  • Zephaniah 3:17
    The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.