Hebrew adjective · H2742
חֲרוּץ
charutskhaw-roots'
sharp; decision; trench; gold
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chărûwts
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2742is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2742
properly, incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager
The King James renders it: decision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
charuts is rendered "sharp; decision; trench; gold". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "sharp".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 22:22You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 22:22חָר֣וּץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's nineteen uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
The word carries four meanings: sharp, and decision, and trench, and gold.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| sharpStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLeviticus 22:22You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed… |
| decisionStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| trenchStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| goldStrong's entry D | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- diligent4
- more than gold3
- the decision2
- a diligent1
- a mutilation1
- a threshing sledge1
- and a moat1
- and gold1
- and more than gold1
- gold1
- sharp1
- with the threshing sledge1
and 1 more, 19 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲרוּפִי | Charuphi | Haruphite | Uses1 |
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חָר֣וּץ3
- חָרֽוּץ׃2
- בֶֽחָרוּץ֙1
- בַּחֲרֻצ֥וֹת1
- הֶֽחָר֑וּץ1
- הֶחָרֽוּץ׃1
- וְחָר֔וּץ1
- וְחָר֖וּץ1
- וּ֝מֵחָר֗וּץ1
- חָ֭רוּץ1
- חָרוּצִ֣ים1
- חָרוּצִ֥ים1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine plural3HAampa
- adjective · masculine singular3HAamsa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular3HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular2HTd/Vqsmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfpc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Leviticus
one use
You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- חָר֣וּץcharutzadjective · masculine singulartagged: a mutilation
Job
one use
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
- חָר֣וּץcharutznoun · masculine singulartagged: a threshing sledge
Psalms
one use
Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”
- חָרֽוּץ׃charutznoun · masculine singulartagged: gold
Proverbs
nine uses
for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.
- וּ֝מֵחָר֗וּץumecharutzconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and more than gold
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
- מֵחָר֥וּץmecharutzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than gold
My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
- מֵחָר֣וּץmecharutzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than gold
Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
- חָרוּצִ֣יםcharutzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: diligent
The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
- חָרוּצִ֥יםcharutzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: diligent
A lazy man does not roast his game, but a diligent man prizes his possession.
- חָרֽוּץ׃charutzadjective · masculine singulartagged: diligent
The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
- חָרֻצִ֣יםcharutzimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: diligent
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
- מֵחָר֑וּץmecharutzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than gold
The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.
- חָ֭רוּץcharutzadjective · masculine singulartagged: a diligent
Isaiah
two uses
Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
- בֶֽחָרוּץ֙vecharutzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the threshing sledge
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
- חָר֣וּץcharutznoun · masculine singulartagged: sharp
Daniel
one use
Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
- וְחָר֔וּץvecharutzconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a moat
Joel
two uses
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
- הֶֽחָר֑וּץhecharutzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the decision
- הֶחָרֽוּץ׃hecharutzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the decision
Amos
one use
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
- בַּחֲרֻצ֥וֹתbacharutzotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with threshing sledges of
Zechariah
one use
Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
- וְחָר֖וּץvecharutzconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and gold
The letters
Gematria 304· 1,114 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.