χάραξ
chárax · G5482 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Siege wallSiege instruments12 verses
Meanings
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palisade, barricade
A fence of poles or stakes used to fortify entrenchments
ExamplesLuke 19:43 “For the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παρεμβάλλωto encamp 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- סֹלְלָה çôlᵉlâh · H5550 · siege ramp
- Both terms denote siege-works (military earthworks/ramparts used in siege warfare), with χάραξ emphasizing the palisade/stake construction and סֹלְלָה the mound/bank form, representing Greek and Hebrew technical vocabulary for overlapping siege-engineering concepts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Palisade, barricade7.60
- Luke 19:43 has Jesus foretell, “the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side”.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χαρακος, ὁ (χαράσσω); 1. a pale or stake, a palisade ((Aristophanes, Demosthenes,…
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): Lk 19:43 (Isa 37:33; Ezek 4:2; Ezek 26:8; Polybius; Josephus, Vita43; Arrian exp. Alex. 2, 19, 9; Plutarch, others).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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