חֹרֶשׁ
chôresh · H2793 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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wood, forest
Area with many trees
Examples2 Chronicles 27:4 Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills.
Isaiah 17:9 On that day their strong cities will be like abandoned places in the forest, Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; And the land will be a desolation.
Ezekiel 31:3 ‘Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade, And very high, And its top was among the clouds.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צָלַלto quiver 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָּוִדDavid 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָזַבto forsake, to leave 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
- יַעַר yaʻar · H3293 · forest, thickets, woods
- Most common Hebrew term for forest/woodland, closely synonymous with חֹרֶשׁ in denoting wooded areas
- סְבָךְ çᵉbâk · H5442 · thicket
- Hebrew term for thicket or dense growth of bushes/trees, overlaps with the wooded/shrubby sense of חֹרֶשׁ
Contrasting words 2 words
- מִדְבָּר midbâr · H4057 · steppe, desert, wilderness
- Wilderness/desert as lexical opposite to forest/woodland; represents barren, treeless terrain contrasted with the wooded terrain of חֹרֶשׁ
- עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh · H6160 · plain, steppe, desert
- Desert plain or arid steppe as opposite landscape type to forested/wooded area
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὕλη hýlē · G5208 · forest, wood, pile of wood
- Common Greek term for forest/woodland that serves as translation equivalent for the forest/wood sense of חֹרֶשׁ
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Landscapes001002004
- The word denotes a wooded area or forest, as in 2 Chronicles 27:4's reference to fortresses built on the wooded hills.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This is also the proper name Horesh, a wooded stronghold in the wilderness of Ziph where David hid from Saul, as in 1 Samuel 23:15-19.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2793. choresh חֹ֫רֶשׁ noun masculineEze 31:3 wood, wooded height (Assyrian —uršu, wooded…
חֹ֫רֶשׁ noun masculineEze 31:3 wood, wooded height (Assyrian —uršu, wooded height COTGloss LyonSargontexte, Gloss (see also DlPr 180 Checritical note on Isa 17:9); Late Hebrew חוֺרֶשׁ wood, forest; Aramaic חוּרְשָׁא id.) — absolute ׳ח Isa 17:9; Eze 31:3 (but on both see below); חֹ֫רְשָׁה 1Sa 23:16 (see Dr); בַּחֹ֫רְשָׁה 1Sa 23:15, 1Sa 23:18, 1Sa 23:19; plural חֳרָשִׁים2Ch 27:4; — wooded height 1Sa 23:15 (|| בָּהָר 1Sa 23:14), 1Sa 23:16; 1Sa 23:18, so הַחֲכִילָה בְּגִבְעַת בַּח ׳בַּמְּצָדוֺת 1Sa 23:19; ׳וּבֶח וּמִגְדָּלִים בִּירָנִיּוֺת בנה2Ch 27:4 and on the wooded heights he built fortresses and towers (|| יְהוּדָה בְּהַר); וְהָאָמִיר הַחֹרֶשׁ עֲזוּבַת Isa 17:9 the forsaken places of the wooded heights and summits Ges Ew De Di RV; but read probably ׳ע והאמרי החוי forsaken places of the Hivites and the Amorites, so ᵐ5 Lag Che Or Brd Du; מֵצַל ׳ח Eze 31:3 shade-giving wood or thicket, of close branches of cedar (but sense hardly legitimate; strike out ᵐ5 Co).
IV. חרשׁ (√ of following; meaning unknown; suggestions on etymology see below)
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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