Strong's #2763: charam (pronounced khaw-ram')
a primitive root; to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose:--make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châram
1) to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to prohibit (for common use), ban
1a2) to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction
1a3) to exterminate, completely destroy
1b) (Hophal)
1b1) to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction
1b2) to be devoted, be forfeited
1b3) to be completely destroyed
2) to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body)
2a) (Qal) to mutilate
2b) (Hiphil) to divide
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 52 times:
Exodus 22:20: "save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
Leviticus 21:18: "or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,"
Leviticus 27:28: "no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all"
Leviticus 27:29: "None devoted, which shall be devoted of shall be redeemed;"
Numbers 21:2: "this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities."
Numbers 21:3: "and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place"
Deuteronomy 2:34: "his cities at that and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones,"
Deuteronomy 3:6: " And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king utterly destroying the men,"
Deuteronomy 3:6: "unto Sihon king utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every"
Deuteronomy 7:2: "shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant"
Deuteronomy 7:2: "shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant"
Deuteronomy 13:15: "of that city of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that"
Deuteronomy 20:17: "But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hivites,"
Deuteronomy 20:17: "But thou shalt utterly destroy thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hivites,"
Joshua 2:10: "were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed."
Joshua 6:18: "yourselves from the accursed thing, ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make"
Joshua 6:21: " And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, and woman,"
Joshua 8:26: "the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants"
Joshua 10:1: "had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king,"
Joshua 10:28: "it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed them, and all the souls that were therein; he let"
Joshua 10:35: "and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that"
Joshua 10:37: "that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that"
Joshua 10:39: "thereof; and they smote of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that"
Joshua 10:40: "he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD"
Joshua 11:11: "that of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe:"
Joshua 11:12: "and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD"
Joshua 11:20: "Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favor, but"
Joshua 11:21: "and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities."
Judges 1:17: "the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called"
Judges 21:11: "is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy male, and every woman"
1 Samuel 15:3: "and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare"
1 Samuel 15:8: "the king of the Amalekites and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword."
1 Samuel 15:9: "and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile"
1 Samuel 15:9: "them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly."
1 Samuel 15:15: "and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."
1 Samuel 15:18: "thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites,"
1 Samuel 15:20: "Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites."
1 Kings 9:21: "of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice"
2 Kings 19:11: "have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?"
1 Chronicles 4:41: "that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt"
2 Chronicles 20:23: "of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,"
2 Chronicles 32:14: "nations my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver"
Ezra 10:8: "of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation"
Isaiah 11:15: "And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian and with his mighty wind"
Isaiah 34:2: "upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter."
Isaiah 37:11: "have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?"
Jeremiah 25:9: "these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual"
Jeremiah 50:21: "the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do"
Jeremiah 50:26: "open her storehouses: cast her up and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left."
Jeremiah 51:3: "and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host."
