חֹרֵשׁchôrêsh

cut in, engrave, plough, devise

Pronunciation: kho-rashe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2794

Meanings

Qal: passive (Psalms 129:3; Judges 14:18; Hosea 10:13)

1. cut in, engrave (Genesis 4:22; 1 Kings 7:14; Jeremiah 17:1)

2. plough, literally (1 Kings 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:10; Isaiah 28:24)

3. devise, (as one who works in, practises), usually bad sense (Proverbs 3:29; Proverbs 6:14; Proverbs 6:18)

Niph`al: shall be ploughed (Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 26:18)

Hiph`il: fabricating mischief against (1 Samuel 23:9)

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)

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).