חָרֵר
chârêr · H2788 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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dry places, parched places
Stretches of land in the wilderness that are extremely dry; associated with thirst
ExamplesJeremiah 17:6 “For he will be like a bush in the desert, And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt that is not inhabited.
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
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 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
- צִיָּה tsîyâh · H6723 · drought, dry land, desert
- Hebrew noun denoting dry, parched desert land; closely parallel term for arid, barren places
- שָׁרָב shârâb · H8273 · scorching heat, burning sand
- Hebrew noun for scorching heat or parched ground caused by intense sun; describes similar arid, heat-affected terrain
Contrasting words 2 words
- מַעְיָן maʻyân · H4599 · spring, spring (symbolizing semen)
- Hebrew noun for natural water source; lexical opposite of parched/dry place as watered/moist place
- כַּרְמֶל karmel · H3759 · new grain, fresh grain, farmland
- Hebrew noun for fertile, well-watered productive land; lexical opposite of parched terrain as verdant, moisture-rich land
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἄνυδρος ánydros · G504 · waterless, dry
- Greek adjective describing dry, waterless places; commonly used in LXX and NT for parched, arid regions corresponding to Hebrew descriptions of desert/parched terrain
- ἔρημος érēmos · G2048 · uninhabited, deserted, desert
- Greek term for desolate, uninhabited dry places; frequently translates Hebrew terms for parched wilderness areas in LXX
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landscapes001002004
- The word denotes a parched or scorched place, a dry landscape feature, in its single occurrence.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2788. charer [חָרֵר] noun [masculine] parched place (Arabic , BdPal 196), only plural…
[חָרֵר] noun [masculine] parched place (Arabic , BdPal 196), only plural absolute חֲרֵרִים; ׳ח במדבר Jer 17:6 (|| עֲרָבָה) figurative of life of godless.
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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