King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2716
Transliteration: chere
Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-reh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dung
Meaning: excrement
Word Summary
chere: dung
Original Word: חֶרֶאTransliteration: chere
Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-reh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dung
Meaning: excrement
Strong's Concordance
excrement, dungFrom an unused (and vulgar) root probably meaning to evacuate the bowels: excrement; -dung. Also chariy {khar-ee'}.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2716. chere
[חֶרֶא, or חֲרִי] noun [masculine] dung (Late Hebrew חרא (י ), id.; Aramaic id.; Mandean חרא (on this and cognate languages in General see NöM 56); Arabic id., whence verb of act, and noun of place; Amharic (DiLex. Aeth. 88)) — plural suffix חַרְאֵיהֶם Isaiah 36:12 Kt (Qr צוֺאָתָם); "" 2 Kings 18:27 has חֲרִיהֶם (see singular חרי 6:25; Qr as above); יוֺנִים חֲרִי dove's dung 6:25 Kt (Qr דִּבִיוֺנִים); see, further, GeiUrschrift, 409.