חָרַךְ
chârak · H2760 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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Causative action by which humans cook the meat of an animal by exposure to open fire (to roast (meat, after a hunting party))
ExamplesProverbs 12:27 A lazy person does not roast his prey, But the precious possession of a person is diligence.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רְמִיָּהdeceit, slackness 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צַיִדgame, provisions 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 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 2 words
- בָּשַׁל bâshal · H1310 · to boil, to cook
- Both words are cooking verbs; the gloss of חָרַךְ (chârak, H2760), "roast," matches one sense of בָּשַׁל (bâshal, H1310), which includes roasting among other cooking methods.
- צָלָה tsâlâh · H6740 · to roast, to pray
- Both verbs denote the action of roasting food; any distinction would rest on context, register, or dialectal preference not recoverable from the minimal occurrence data (1 vs. 3 occurrences).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Burn002001001009
- This entry carries no independent "Burn" sense of its own beyond the ordinary meaning of roasting food over fire, illustrated at its sole occurrence, Proverbs 12:27 ("a lazy person does not roast his prey") — the sense is roasting/cooking, not burning as destruction.
- Cooked002001001016
- חָרַךְ denotes roasting, illustrated at its sole occurrence, Proverbs 12:27, describing the lazy hunter who fails to roast the game he has caught — a genuine sense of preparing food by heat.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2760. charak I. [חָרַךְ] verb set in motion, start (compare Arabic move, be agitated,…
I. [חָרַךְ] verb set in motion, start (compare Arabic move, be agitated, II. set in motion) — only
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular צֵידוֺ רְמִיָּה לֹאיַֿחֲרֹךְ Pro 12:27 slackness (i.e. a slack or slothful man) doth not start its game De RVm, compare Now (> Be Ew after Jewish tradition, doth not roast, Aramaic חֲרַךְ, scorch, parch).
II. חרך (√ of following; meaning unknown).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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