charits · cut, cheese, sledge

What it means

charits (חָרִיץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut, cheese, sledge”.

Cut, slice. "Cuts of milk" are cheeses (1 Samuel 17:18). Elsewhere it is a tool with an edge, such as a threshing sledge.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A food made of curdled milk, in portions.
2. A sharp iron tool.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• picks ×2
• cheeses ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1

• 1 Samuel 17:18

  And these ten cheeses bring to the commander of the thousand; and look after the welfare of your brothers, and take a pledge from them.

• 2 Samuel 12:31

  And the people who were in it he brought out, and he put them with the saw and with the picks of iron and with the axes of iron, and he made them pass through the brick kiln; and so he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 20:3

  And the people who were in it he brought out, and he sawed them with the saw and with the picks of iron and with the saws; and so David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.