חֶרֶשׁcheresh

חֶ֫רֶשׁ: silently, secretly (Joshua 2:1)

Pronunciation: kheh'-resh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2791

Meanings

חֶ֫רֶשׁ: magic art, or perhaps magic drug (Isaiah 3:3)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 2:1 Then Joshua secretly sent out two spies from the Israelite camp at Acacia Grove. He instructed them, “Scout out the land on the other side of the Jordan River, especially around Jericho.” So the two men set out and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there that night.
  • Isaiah 3:3 army officers and high officials, advisers, skilled sorcerers, and astrologers.

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).