Hebrew adjective · H2795
חֵרֵשׁ
chereshkhay-rashe'
deaf
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chêrêsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2795is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2795
deaf (whether literally or spiritual)
The King James renders it: deaf.
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 "deaf". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 4:11And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Exodus 4:11חֵרֵ֔שׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's nine uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- deaf3
- and deaf2
- a deaf1
- like a deaf1
- O deaf1
- the deaf1
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- הַחֵרְשִׁ֖ים2
- חֵרֵ֔שׁ2
- וְחֵרֵ֖שׁ1
- וְחֵרְשִׁ֖ים1
- חֵ֝רֵ֗שׁ1
- חֵרְשִׁ֖ים1
- כְ֭חֵרֵשׁ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular3HAamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural2HTd/Aampa
- adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Aamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
Exodus
one use
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
- חֵרֵ֔שׁchereshadjective · masculine singulartagged: deaf
Leviticus
one use
You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
- חֵרֵ֔שׁchereshadjective · masculine singulartagged: a deaf
Psalms
two uses
But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
- כְ֭חֵרֵשׁkhechereshpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: like a deaf
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- חֵ֝רֵ֗שׁchereshadjective · masculine singulartagged: deaf
Isaiah
five uses
On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
- הַחֵרְשִׁ֖יםhachereshimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the deaf
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
- חֵרְשִׁ֖יםchereshimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: deaf
Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
- הַחֵרְשִׁ֖יםhachereshimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: O deaf
Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?
- וְחֵרֵ֖שׁvechereshconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and deaf
Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.
- וְחֵרְשִׁ֖יםvechereshimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and deaf
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.