Lexical Summary charats: to cut, sharpen, decide Original Word: חָרַץTransliteration: charats Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rats') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cut, sharpen, decide Meaning: to point sharply, to wound, to be alert, to decide Strong's Concordance bestir self, decide, decree, determine, maim, move A primitive root; properly, to point sharply, i.e. (literally) to wound; figuratively, to be alert, to decide -- bestir self, decide, decree, determine, maim, move. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2782. charats I. חָרַץ verb cut, sharpen, decide (Late Hebrew id., cut in, decide, Aramaic in derivatives; Assyrian —arâƒu, dig, decide, —ariƒu, trench, ZehnpfBAS i. 502; Phoenician חרץ decision, HoffmAGG xxxvi, May 1889, 11) — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳ח Joshua 10:21; חָרָ֑צְתָּ 1 Kings 20:40; Imperfect יֶחֱרַץֿ Exodus 11:7; 2masculine singular תֶּחֱרָ֑ץ 2 Samuel 5:24; Passive participle חָרוּץ Isaiah 10:22; Leviticus 22:22; plural חֲרוּצִים Job 14:5 (see also חָרוּץ below); — 1 cut, mutilate Leviticus 22:22 (יַבֶּלֶת אוֺ אוֺחָֿרוּץ שָׁבוּר אוֺ עַוֶּרֶת). 2 sharpen, figurative the tongue, יֶח לְ׳לֹא לְשֹׁנוֺ כֶּֿלֶב Exodus 11:7 (J), i.e. utter no sound against Israel, Joshua 10:21. 3 decide 1 Kings 20:40 (absolute); so participle pass ימיו חרוצים Job 14:5 his days are determined, fixed ("" חדשׁיו מִסְמַּר), Isaiah 10:22 ח ׳כִּלָּיוֺן; act with decision 2 Samuel 5:24. Niph`al Participle נֶחֱרָצָה Isaiah 10:23 3t.; נֶחֱרֶצֶת Daniel 9:26 (both these forms infinitive construct according to BaNB 90); decisive וְנֶח ׳כָּלָה Isaiah 10:23; 28:22; Daniel 9:27 a consumption and strict decision (i.e. that which is strictly determined), נ ׳כי נֶעֱשָׂ֑תָה 11:36; ׳נח שֹׁמֵמוֺת 9:26 strict determining of desolation. |
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