Charats חָרַץ

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Charats
חָרַץ
Transliterationcharats
Strong's numberH2782
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto decide
Occurrences11 in 11 verses
Most frequent inIsaiah (3)

Charats (Hebrew חָרַץ, Strong's H2782) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to decide”. It occurs 11 times in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to cut, sharpen, decide, decree, determine, maim, move, be decisive, be mutilated
1a)(Qal)
1a1) to cut, mutilate
1a2) to sharpen
1a3) to decide
1b) (Niphal) to be decisive

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVdetermined (6), move (1), maimed (1), moved (1), bestir (1), decided (1), decreed (1)
BSBdecreed (2), will snarl (1), dared to utter (1), move quickly (1), you have pronounced it (1), determined (1), has been decreed (1), decree (1), have been decreed (1), what has been decreed (1)

Verses

Every verse with Charats, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

Joshua

2 Samuel

1 Kings

Job

Isaiah

Daniel

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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