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Strong's #2742: charuwts (pronounced khaw-roots')

or charuts {khaw-roots'}; passive participle of 2782; properly, incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager:--decision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chârûts

1) sharp-pointed, sharp, diligent (adjective)

2) strict decision, decision (noun masculine)

3) trench, moat, ditch (noun masculine)

4) gold (poetical) (noun masculine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: passive participle of H2782

Same Word by TWOT Number: 752a,b, 753a



Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

Job 41:30: "stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire."
Psalms 68:13: "with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold."
Proverbs 3:14: "than the merchandise and the gain thereof than fine gold. thereof than fine gold."
Proverbs 8:10: "and not silver; rather than choice gold. rather than choice gold."
Proverbs 8:19: "My fruit is better than gold, than gold, yea, than fine gold; than choice"
Proverbs 10:4: "with a slack hand: of the diligent maketh rich."
Proverbs 12:24: "The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful under tribute."
Proverbs 12:27: "not that which he took in hunting: of a diligent man is precious."
Proverbs 13:4: "desireth, and hath nothing: of the diligent shall be made fat."
Proverbs 16:16: "better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen"
Proverbs 21:5: "The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; that is hasty only to want."
Isaiah 28:27: "the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon"
Isaiah 41:15: "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp having teeth: thou shalt thresh"
Daniel 9:25: "the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."
Joel 3:14: "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: the day of the LORD is near"
Joel 3:14: "of the LORD is near in the valley of decision."
Amos 1:3: "they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:"
Zechariah 9:3: "and heaped up as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets."









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