חָרִישׁ
chârîysh · H2758 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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plowing
The causative action by which humans turn over the soil with a plow pulled by domestic animals, covering weeds with soil and making the land ready for cultivation, usually regarded as a strenuous task requiring much energy
ExamplesGenesis 45:6 “For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
Exodus 34:21 “You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.
1 Samuel 8:12 “He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to gather in his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָרַשׁto be silent, to plow, to devise 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- נִיר nîyr · H5215 · lamp, fallow ground
- Hebrew noun for plowed/tilled ground, semantically overlapping with חָרִישׁ as cultivated agricultural land
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The word denotes plowing, a forceful working of the ground, as in Genesis 45:6's and Exodus 34:21's references to plowing time and 1 Samuel 8:12's mention of appointed plowmen.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2758. charish חָרִישׁ noun masculine ploughing, ploughing-time — absolute ׳ח וְקָצִיר…
חָרִישׁ noun masculine ploughing, ploughing-time — absolute ׳ח וְקָצִיר Gen 45:6 (E) ploughing and harvesting; also (= time of ploughing and harvest) Exo 34:21 (JE); with suffix as accusative of congnate meaning with verb חֲרִישׁוֺ חָרַשׁ 1Sa 8:12 (see above חָרַשׁ 2).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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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