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:
Proverbs 6:18: "A heart that deviseth imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,"
Proverbs 11:12: "his neighbor: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace."
Proverbs 12:20: "Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy."
Proverbs 14:22: "Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good."
Proverbs 14:22: "evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good."
Proverbs 17:28: "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."
Proverbs 20:4: "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing."
Isaiah 28:24: " Doth the plowman plow day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?"
Isaiah 28:24: "Doth the plowman plow day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?"
Isaiah 36:21: " But they held their peace, and answered a word: for the king's commandment was, saying,"
Isaiah 41:1: " Keep silence before and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then"
Isaiah 42:14: "I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy"
Jeremiah 4:19: "my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound"
Jeremiah 17:1: "of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns"
Jeremiah 26:18: "saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become"
Jeremiah 38:27: "that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not"
Hosea 10:11: "I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods."
Hosea 10:13: " Ye have plowed wickedness, iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because"
Amos 6:12: "Shall horses run will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment"
Amos 9:13: "saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes"
Micah 3:12: "Therefore shall Zion be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps,"
Micah 7:16: "their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf."
Habakkuk 1:13: "iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous"
Zephaniah 3:17: "he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing."
