חָרַםchâram
חָרַם: ban, devote, exterminate
Pronunciation: khaw-ram' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2763
Meanings
ban, devote (Joshua 8:26; Joshua 10:28; 1 Samuel 15:18)
1. most often of devoting to destruction cities of Canaanites and other neighbours of Israel, exterminating inhabitants, and destroying or appropriating their possessions
a. exterminate (Numbers 21:2; Numbers 21:3; Joshua 6:21)
b. destroy, exterminate (2 Kings 19:11; Isaiah 37:11; 2 Chronicles 32:14)
c. God as subject (Isaiah 34:2; Jeremiah 25:9; Isaiah 11:15)
d. devoting (Deuteronomy 13:16; Judges 21:11)
2. devote to ׳ י (Micah 4:13; Leviticus 27:28)
Hoph`al
1. be put under the ban, devoted (to death), for worshipping other gods than ׳ י (Exodus 22:19; Leviticus 27:29)
2. devoted, i.e. forfeited, to the temple treasures (Ezra 10:8; Leviticus 27:28; 1 Samuel 15:33)
חָרַם: slit
Qal: a man blind or lame or, mutilated (Leviticus 21:18)
Same root
- חֲרוּמַףchărûwmaph · H2739Charumaph, an Israelite
- חֵרֶםchêrem · H2764physical (as shutting in) a net (either literally or figuratively); usually a doomed object; abstractly extermination
- חֳרֵםChŏrêm · H2765Chorem, a place in Palestine
- חָרִםChârim · H2766Charim, an Israelite
- חׇרְמָהChormâh · H2767Chormah, a place in Palestine
- חֶרְמוֹןChermôwn · H2768Chermon, a mount of Palestine
- חֶרְמֵשׁchermêsh · H2770a sickle (as cutting)
Where it appears
Appears 52 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 22:20 “Anyone who sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.
- Leviticus 21:18 No one who has a defect qualifies, whether he is blind, lame, disfigured, deformed,
- Leviticus 27:28 “However, anything specially set apart for the Lord—whether a person, an animal, or family property—must never be sold or bought back. Anything devoted in this way has been set apart as holy, and it belongs to the Lord.
- Leviticus 27:29 No person specially set apart for destruction may be bought back. Such a person must be put to death.
- Numbers 21:2 Then the people of Israel made this vow to the Lord: “If you will hand these people over to us, we will completely destroy all their towns.”
- Numbers 21:3 The Lord heard the Israelites’ request and gave them victory over the Canaanites. The Israelites completely destroyed them and their towns, and the place has been called Hormah ever since.
See every passage
- Exodus 22:20
- Leviticus 21:18, 27:28, 27:29
- Numbers 21:2, 21:3
- Deuteronomy 2:34, 3:6, 7:2, 13:15, 20:17
- Joshua 2:10, 6:18, 6:21, 8:26, 10:1, 10:28, 10:35, 10:37, 10:39, 10:40, 11:11, 11:12, 11:20, 11:21
- Judges 1:17, 21:11
- 1 Samuel 15:3, 15:8, 15:9, 15:15, 15:18, 15:20
- 1 Kings 9:21
- 2 Kings 19:11
- 1 Chronicles 4:41
- 2 Chronicles 20:23, 32:14
- Ezra 10:8
- Isaiah 11:15, 34:2, 37:11
- Jeremiah 25:9, 50:21, 50:26, 51:3
- Daniel 11:44
- Micah 4:13
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).