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
- חָרַשׁchârash · H2790to 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)
- חֶרֶשׂcheres · H2789a piece of pottery
- חֶרֶשׁCheresh · H2792Cheresh, a Levite
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).