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:
Daniel 11:44: "shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many."
Micah 4:13: "and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord"
