חָרֵשׁ charesh

Hebrew word for “be quiet” · Strong’s H2790 · used 74 times in 67 verses

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Meaning

1) to be silent, be dumb, be speechless, be deaf;

Senses in the lexicon

• be quiet (47)
• to plow/plot (27)

How it is translated

Glosses given for charesh in context, with how often each is used:

• silent 9
• will keep silent 8
• kept silent 7
• keep quiet 3
• devisers 3
• keep silent 2
• certainly 2
• worker 2
• will plow 2
• plowing 2
• have plowed 2
• plowman 2

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 30 (4), Job 13 (3), Job 33 (2), Psalms 50 (2), Proverbs 6 (2), Hosea 10 (2), Genesis 4 (1), Genesis 24 (1), Genesis 34 (1), Exodus 14 (1)

Forms

• תחרשׁ 10
• החרשׁ 8
• אחרישׁ 5
• חרשׁ 5
• חרשׁי 4
• מחרישׁ 3
• יחרישׁ 3
• יחרשׁ 3
• והחרשׁ 2
• תחרישׁון 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with charesh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אַל al “not” 9
• אִסָּר esar “injunction” 4
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 10
• לֵב lev “heart” 7
• רַע ra “bad” 7
• קָצַר qatsar “to reap” 4
• נֶדֶר neder “vow” 4
• מָה mah “what?” 6
• הָ ha “her” 5
• מִן־ min “from” 6
• שָׂדַד sadad “to harrow” 2
• אָסַר asar “to bind” 3

Key verses

The verses using charesh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 10:27 — But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
• 1 Samuel 23:9 — And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
• Psalms 28:1 — [A Psalm of David.] Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
• Psalms 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
• Psalms 39:12 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
• Psalms 50:3 — Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
• Psalms 50:21 — These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order…
• Jeremiah 4:19 — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the…
• Jeremiah 26:18 — Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall…
• Micah 3:12 — Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
• Habakkuk 1:13 — Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue…
• Zephaniah 3:17 — The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.