2793. choresh
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choresh: wood, wooded height
Original Word: חֹ֫רֶשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: choresh
Phonetic Spelling: (kho'-resh)
Short Definition: Horesh

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
wood, wooded height
NASB Translation
forest (2), Horesh (4), wooded (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
חֹ֫רֶשׁ noun masculineEzekiel 31:3 wood, wooded height (Assyrian —uršu, wooded height COTGloss LyonSargontexte, Gloss (see also DlPr 180 Checritical note on Isaiah 17:9); Late Hebrew חוֺרֶשׁ wood, forest; Aramaic חוּרְשָׁא id.) — absolute ׳ח Isaiah 17:9; Ezekiel 31:3 (but on both see below); חֹ֫רְשָׁה 1 Samuel 23:16 (see Dr); בַּחֹ֫רְשָׁה 1 Samuel 23:15,18,19; plural חֳרָשִׁים2Chronicles 27:4; — wooded height 1 Samuel 23:15 ("" בָּהָר 1 Samuel 23:14), 1 Samuel 23:16; 1 Samuel 23:18, so ׳בַּמְּצָדוֺת בַּח בְּגִבְעַת הַחֲכִילָה 1 Samuel 23:19; בנה בִּירָנִיּוֺת וּמִגְדָּלִים ׳וּבֶח2Chronicles 27:4 and on the wooded heights he built fortresses and towers ("" בְּהַר יְהוּדָה); עֲזוּבַת הַחֹרֶשׁ וְהָאָמִיר Isaiah 17:9 the forsaken places of the wooded heights and summits Ges Ew De Di RV; but read probably החוי והאמרי ׳ע forsaken places of the Hivites and the Amorites, so ᵐ5 Lag Che Or Brd Du; ׳ח מֵצַל Ezekiel 31:3 shade-giving wood or thicket, of close branches of cedar (but sense hardly legitimate; strike out ᵐ5 Co).

IV. חרשׁ (√ of following; meaning unknown; suggestions on etymology see below)



Strong's
bough, forest, shroud, wood

From charash; a forest (perhaps as furnishing the material for fabric) -- bough, forest, shroud, wood.

see HEBREW charash

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