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חֶרֶא

chereʼ · H2716 · Hebrew · 0 occurrences

Meanings

  1. dung, excrement

    Dung or excrement, produced by animals and human beings, used as food in times of extreme hardship and as fuel, and apparently considered indecent since a euphemism replaces it in all passages where it is found

    This lexeme does not occur in the Old Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions.

Near synonyms 1 word
צוֹאָה tsôwʼâh · H6675 · excrement, filth
Both refer to bodily waste; צוֹאָה (tsôwʼâh, H6675) extends to broader filth/uncleanness (also in "Unclean" domain), while חֶרֶא (chereʼ, H2716) is more narrowly dung.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Body Products001003001002
The word denotes human dung or excrement, a bodily waste product named in its occurrence with no genuine tagged occurrence in the text as preserved in standard critical editions.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חֶרֶאchereʼ · H2716חֲרֵי־יוֹנִים chărêy-yôwnîym · H2755 · pigeon dung · 0×מַחֲרָאָה machărâʼâh · H4280 · latrine · 0×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2716. chere [חֶרֶא, or חֲרִי] noun [masculine] dung (Late Hebrew חרא (י ), id.; Aramaic…
H2716. chere
[חֶרֶא, or חֲרִי] noun [masculine] dung (Late Hebrew חרא (י ), id.; Aramaic id.; Mandean חרא (on this and cognate languages in General see NöM 56); Arabic id., whence verb of act, and noun of place; Amharic (DiLex. Aeth. 88)) — plural suffix חַרְאֵיהֶם Isa 36:12 Kt (Qr צוֺאָתָם); || 2Ki 18:27 has חֲרִיהֶם (see singular חרי 2Ki 6:25; Qr as above); יוֺנִים חֲרִי dove's dung 2Ki 6:25 Kt (Qr דִּבִיוֺנִים); see, further, GeiUrschrift, 409.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Body Products0 occurrences

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