Lexicon Cheres: a mountain East of the Jordan, also dwelling place of the Amorites Original Word: חָ֫רֶסPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Cheres Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-res) Short Definition: Heres NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as cheresDefinitiona mountain E. of the Jordan, also dwelling place of the Amorites NASB TranslationHeres (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs II. [ חֶ֫רֶס] proper name, of a location 1. abode of Amorites, בְּהַרחֶֿרֶס בְּאַיָּלוֺן וּבְשַׁעַלְבִֿים Judges 1:35, since חֶרֶס sun = שֶׁמֶשׁ, perhaps = בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ 1 (q. v.), so Stu (who proposes עִיר חֶרֶס = עָר), Ke Be BuRS 17 Öttli Bla; ᵐ5 ἐν τῷ [ὄρει τοῦ] Μυρσινῶνι (-ος) = הַר הֲדַס. 2 place east of Jordan מִלְמַעֲלֵה הֶחָ֑רֶס Judges 8:13 from the ascent of Heres, ᵐ5 Αρες; the point whence Gideon turned back from pursuing Midian; Aq Symm read הֶהָרִים (see LagOnom. 96, 2nd ed. 131) so SS. — תִּמְנַתחֶֿרֶס Judges 2:9 see below תִּמְנַת, √ מנה. III. חֶרֶס, חַרְסִית, חרסות see below חרשׂ. חרע (√ of following; perhaps compare Aramaic  Ethpa`al be clever,  shrewd, especially in bad sense; Arabic  split, VIII. originate, invent).
Strong's Heres The same as cherec; shining; Cheres, a mountain in Palestine -- Heres. see HEBREW cherec |
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