חָרַם

If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

Exodus 22:20

• יָֽחֳרָ֑םyochoramverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be dedicated to destruction

No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

Leviticus 21:18

• חָרֻ֖םcharumverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: a slit nose

Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:28

• יַחֲרִם֩yacharimverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will dedicate to destruction

No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.

Leviticus 27:29

• יָחֳרַ֛םyochoramverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be dedicated to destruction

So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”

Numbers 21:2

• וְהַֽחֲרַמְתִּ֖יvehacharamtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will totally destroy

And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.

Numbers 21:3

• וַיַּחֲרֵ֥םvaiyacharemHc/Vhw3mstagged: and it totally destroyed

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 2:34

• וַֽנַּחֲרֵם֙vanacharemHc/Vhw1cptagged: and we totally destroyed

We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

Deuteronomy 3:6

• וַנַּחֲרֵ֣םvanacharemHc/Vhw1cptagged: and we totally destroyed
• הַחֲרֵם֙hacharemverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: we totally destroyed

and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Deuteronomy 7:2

• הַחֲרֵ֤םhacharemverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to totally destroy
• תַּחֲרִים֙tacharimverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will totally destroy

you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.

Deuteronomy 13:15

• הַחֲרֵ֨םhacharemverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: totally destroy

For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

Deuteronomy 20:17

• הַחֲרֵ֣םhacharemverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to totally destroy
• תַּחֲרִימֵ֗םtacharimemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will totally destroy them

For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.

Joshua 2:10

• הֶחֱרַמְתֶּ֖םhecheramtemverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you totally destroyed

But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it.

Joshua 6:18

• תַּחֲרִ֖ימוּtacharimuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you should totally destroy

At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

Joshua 6:21

• וַֽיַּחֲרִ֙ימוּ֙vaiyacharimuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they totally destroyed

Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.

Joshua 8:26

• הֶחֱרִ֔יםhecherimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had totally destroyed

Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.

Joshua 10:1

• וַיַּחֲרִימָהּ֒vaiyacharimahHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he had totally destroyed it

On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:28

• הֶחֱרִ֣םhecherimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he totally destroyed

That day they captured Eglon and put it to the sword, and Joshua devoted to destruction everyone in the city, just as he had done to Lachish.

Joshua 10:35

• הֶחֱרִ֑יםhecherimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he totally destroyed

They captured it and put to the sword its king, all its villages, and all the people. Joshua left no survivors, just as he had done at Eglon; he devoted to destruction Hebron and everyone in it.

Joshua 10:37

• וַיַּחֲרֵ֣םvaiyacharemHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he totally destroyed

And they captured Debir, its king, and all its villages. They put them to the sword and devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. Joshua did to Debir and its king as he had done to Hebron and as he had done to Libnah and its king.

Joshua 10:39

• וַֽיַּחֲרִ֙ימוּ֙vaiyacharimuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they totally destroyed

So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Joshua 10:40

• הֶחֱרִ֔יםhecherimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he totally destroyed

The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.

Joshua 11:11

• הַֽחֲרֵ֔םhacharemverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: they totally destroyed

Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

Joshua 11:12

• הֶחֱרִ֣יםhecherimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he totally destroyed

For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Joshua 11:20

• הַֽחֲרִימָ֔םhacharimamverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to totally destroy them

At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.

Joshua 11:21

• הֶחֱרִימָ֥םhecherimamverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he totally destroyed them

Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.

Judges 1:17

• וַיַּחֲרִ֣ימוּvaiyacharimuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they totally destroyed

This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”

Judges 21:11

• תַּחֲרִֽימוּ׃tacharimuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will totally destroy

Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

1 Samuel 15:3

• וְהַֽחֲרַמְתֶּם֙vehacharamtemHc/Vhq2mptagged: and you will totally destroy

He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.

1 Samuel 15:8

• הֶחֱרִ֥יםhecherimverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he totally destroyed

Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.

1 Samuel 15:9

• הַחֲרִימָ֑םhacharimamverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to totally destroy them
• הֶחֱרִֽימוּ׃ פhecherimuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they totally destroyed

Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”

1 Samuel 15:15

• הֶחֱרַֽמְנוּ׃ סhecheramnuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we totally destroyed

and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

1 Samuel 15:18

• וְהַחֲרַמְתָּ֞הvehacharamtahHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will totally destroy

“But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.

1 Samuel 15:20

• הֶחֱרַֽמְתִּי׃hecheramtiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I totally destroyed

their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.

1 Kings 9:21

• לְהַֽחֲרִימָ֑םlehacharimampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to totally destroy them

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?

2 Kings 19:11

• לְהַֽחֲרִימָ֑םlehacharimampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by totally destroying them

These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites and Meunites there in their dwellings, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.

1 Chronicles 4:41

• וַיַּחֲרִימֻם֙vaiyacharimumHc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they totally destroyed them

The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had made an end to the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

2 Chronicles 20:23

• לְהַחֲרִ֣יםlehacharimpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to totally destroy

Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?

2 Chronicles 32:14

• הֶחֱרִ֣ימוּhecherimuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they totally destroyed

Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.

Ezra 10:8

• יָחֳרַ֖םyochoramverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be forfeited

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

Isaiah 11:15

• וְהֶחֱרִ֣יםvehecherimHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will divide

The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

Isaiah 34:2

• הֶחֱרִימָ֖םhecherimamverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he will totally destroy them

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?

Isaiah 37:11

• לְהַחֲרִימָ֑םlehacharimampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by totally destroying them

behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:9

• וְהַ֣חֲרַמְתִּ֔יםvehacharamtimHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will totally destroy them

Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:21

• וְהַחֲרֵ֤םvehacharemconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: and totally destroy

Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.

Jeremiah 50:26

• וְהַחֲרִימ֑וּהָvehacharimuhaconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and totally destroy it

Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

Jeremiah 51:3

• הַחֲרִ֖ימוּhacharimuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: totally destroy

But news from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will go out with great fury to destroy many and devote them to destruction.

Daniel 11:44

• וּֽלְהַחֲרִ֖יםulehacharimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to totally destroy

Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Micah 4:13

• וְהַחֲרַמְתִּ֤יvehacharamtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will dedicate to destruction