Hebrew adv · H2791
חֶרֶשׁ
chereshkheh'-resh
silently; craftily
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2791is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2791
magical craft; also silence
The King James renders it: cunning, secretly.
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
cheresh is rendered "silently; craftily". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "silently".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
Joshua 2:1חֶ֣רֶשׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: silently, and craftily.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| silentlyStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJoshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land… |
| craftilyStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- magic arts1
- secretly1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֶרֶשׂ | cheres | earthenware | Uses17 |
| חֶרֶס | cheres | sun | Uses3 |
| חֶרֶט | cheret | stylus | Uses2 |
| חֶרֶךְ | cherek | lattice | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- חֶ֣רֶשׁ1
- חֲרָשִׁ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine or feminine singular1HNcbsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
Joshua
one use
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- חֶ֣רֶשׁchereshnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: secretly
Isaiah
one use
the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.
- חֲרָשִׁ֖יםcharashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: magic arts
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.