Strong's #2790: charash (pronounced khaw-rash')
a primitive root; to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness):--X altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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chârash
1) to cut in, plough, engrave, devise
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to cut in, engrave
1a2) to plough
1a3) to devise
1b) (Niphal) to be ploughed
1c) (Hiphil) to plot evil
2) to be silent, be dumb, be speechless, be deaf
2a) (Qal)
2a1) to be silent
2a2) to be deaf
2b) (Hiphil)
2b1) to be silent, keep quiet
2b2) to make silent
2b3) to be deaf, show deafness
2c) (Hithpael) to remain silent
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 74 times:
Genesis 24:21: "And the man wondering at her held his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or"
Genesis 34:5: "his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come."
Exodus 14:14: "The LORD shall fight shall hold your peace."
Numbers 30:4: "she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand,"
Numbers 30:7: "And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds"
Numbers 30:11: "And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand,"
Numbers 30:14: "But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day;"
Numbers 30:14: "But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day;"
Numbers 30:14: "her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard"
Deuteronomy 22:10: "Thou shalt not plow and an ass together."
Judges 14:18: "is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not"
Judges 16:2: "night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning,"
Judges 18:19: "And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with"
1 Samuel 7:8: "to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto"
1 Samuel 8:12: "and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make"
1 Samuel 10:27: "him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace."
1 Samuel 23:9: "knew Saul secretly practiced mischief against him; and he said to"
2 Samuel 13:20: "thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother;"
2 Samuel 19:10: "in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king"
1 Kings 7:14: "of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with"
1 Kings 19:19: "Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke"
2 Kings 18:36: "But the people held their peace, him not a word: for the king's commandment"
Nehemiah 5:8: "your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing"
Esther 4:14: "For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance"
Esther 4:14: "For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance"
Esther 7:4: "we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail"
Job 1:14: "and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside"
Job 4:8: "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap"
Job 6:24: "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred."
Job 11:3: "Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?"
Job 13:5: "O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom."
Job 13:5: "O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom."
Job 13:13: " Hold your peace, let me alone, may speak, and let come on me what"
Job 13:19: "with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost."
Job 33:31: "Mark well, O Job, unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak."
Job 33:33: "If not, unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom."
Job 41:12: "I will not conceal nor his power, nor his comely proportion."
Psalms 28:1: "O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to"
Psalms 28:1: "silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down"
Psalms 32:3: "When I kept silence, waxed old through my roaring all the day"
Psalms 35:22: "This thou hast seen, O LORD: silence: O Lord, be not far from"
Psalms 39:12: "and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for"
Psalms 50:3: "Our God shall come, keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very"
Psalms 50:21: "These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: but I will reprove"
Psalms 83:1: "Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still,"
Psalms 109:1: "To the chief Musician, A Psalm Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;"
Psalms 129:3: " The plowers plowed my back: they made long their furrows."
Psalms 129:3: "The plowers plowed my back: they made long their furrows."
Proverbs 3:29: " Devise not against thy neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely"
Proverbs 6:14: "Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord."
