King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H2796
Transliteration: charash
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rawsh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: engraver, artificer
Meaning: a fabricator, any material
Word Summary
charash: engraver, artificer
Original Word: חָרָשׁTransliteration: charash
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rawsh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: engraver, artificer
Meaning: a fabricator, any material
Strong's Concordance
artificer, carpenter, craftsman, engraver, maker, mason, skilful, smith, From charash; a fabricator or any material -- artificer, (+) carpenter, craftsman, engraver, maker, + mason, skilful, (+) smith, worker, workman, such as wrought.
see HEBREW charash
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2796. charash
חָרָשׁ noun masculineExodus 38:23 graver, artificer (Phoenician חרש) — absolute ׳ח (= *חַרָּשׁ) 35:35 14t.; construct חָרַשׁ 28:11 2t.; plural חָֽרָשִׁים Hosea 13:2 7t.; חֲרָשִׁים 1 Chronicles 4:14 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 11:35 (see below); construct חָֽרָשֵׁי 2 Samuel 5:11 6t.; —
1 graver, artificer:
a. worker in metal 1 Samuel 13:19; Hosea 8:6; 13:2; Deuteronomy 27:15; Jeremiah 10:9 ("" צֹרֵף), Isaiah 40:19 ("" id.), 54:16; 1 Chronicles 29:5; ׳ח בַּרְזֶל Isaiah 44:12; 2 Chronicles 24:12; perhaps also Isaiah 41:7 (+ צֹרֵף); apparently = hammer Zechariah 2:3 (symbolic).
b. worker in wood ׳ח עֵץ 2 Samuel 5:11 = 1 Chronicles 14:1 (עֵצִים), 2 Kings 12:12; 22:6 2 Chronicles 34:11; Jeremiah 10:3; Isaiah 40:20; 44:13 (see also 1 Chronicles 22:15 below); perhaps also Ezra 3:7; 2 Chronicles 24:12 (both "" חצב).
c. worker in stone ׳ח קִיר אֶבֶן 2 Samuel 5:11 = 1 Chronicles 14:1 (omitted אבן); also of engraving on gems ׳ח אבן Exodus 28:11 (P; "" חֹתָם מִּתּוּחֵי); see also following
d. in General ׳ח וָעֵץ אֶבֶן 1 Chronicles 22:15; idol-maker ׳ח צִירִים Isaiah 45:16, compare 44:11 (also 44:12; 44:13 above), 2 Kings 24:14, 16; Jeremiah 24:1; 29:2 (all "" מַסְגֵּר), Exodus 35:35; 38:23 (both P; both "" חשֵׁב). In חֲרָשִׁים גֵּיא 1 Chronicles 4:14, הַחֲ ׳גֵּי Nehemiah 11:35 valley of (the) artificers, and חֲרָשִׁים artificers 1 Chronicles 4:14, ח has ֲ֯ exceptionally, see Ol§ 183 a Köii, § 60. 5; read חָֽרָשִׁים?
2 figurative ׳ח מַשְׁחִית Ezekiel 21:36 men skilled to destroy.