Lexicon charax: a pointed stake, a rampart Original Word: χάραξ, ακός, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: charax Phonetic Spelling: (khar'-ax) Short Definition: a mound for besieging Definition: a palisade, mound for besieging. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as charagmaDefinitiona pointed stake, a rampart NASB Translationbarricade (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5482: χάραξχάραξ, χαρακος, ὁ ( χαράσσω); 1. a pale or stake, a palisade ((Aristophanes, Demosthenes, others)). 2. a palisade or rampart (i. e. pales between which earth, stones, trees and timbers are heaped and packed together): Luke 19:43 (Isaiah 37:33; Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 26:8; Polybius; Josephus, Vita43; Arrian exp. Alex. 2, 19, 9; Plutarch, others).
Strong's trench. From charasso (to sharpen to a point; akin to grapho through the idea of scratching); a stake, i.e. (by implication) a palisade or rampart (military mound for circumvallation in a siege) -- trench. see GREEK grapho |
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