H2790 חָרַשׁ
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 74 KJV occurrences
חָרַשׁ
chârash · khaw-rash'
Definition
to 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)
KJV Renderings
[idiom] altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 74)
- Genesis 24:21And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
- Deuteronomy 22:10¶ Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
- 2 Samuel 19:10And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
- Job 4:8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- Job 41:12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
- Psalms 129:3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- Proverbs 17:28Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- Jeremiah 26:18Micah 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 be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.