Word Study · Strong's H2791 · Hebrew

חֶרֶשׁ

cheresh

kheh'-resh

“magical craft”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

magical craft; also silence

Rendered in the KJV as

cunning, secretly.

2
occurrencesin the Old Testament
2 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
2
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 2 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 2

חֶ֣רֶשׁ1
חֲרָשִׁ֖ים1

How it is rendered · 2

magic arts1
secretly1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

noun · masculine or feminine singular1
noun · masculine plural1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

HNcbsa · 1
HNcmpa · 1

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The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Joshua1 of 2 · 50%
Isaiah1 of 2 · 50%

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Joshua1 occurrence

Joshua 2:1חֶ֣רֶשׁchereshnoun · masculine or feminine singularThen 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.here: secretly

Isaiah1 occurrence

Isaiah 3:3חֲרָשִׁ֖יםcharashimnoun · masculine pluralthe commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.here: magic arts

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled חֶרֶשׁ

H2792 · 1×

חֶרֶשׁ

Cheresh

“Cheresh, a Levite”

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