charats · decide, determine

What it means

charats (חָרַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “decide, determine”.

Cut, decide, determine beforehand. Said of a dog, move the tongue: bark or growl (Exodus 11:7).

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. To cut off a part of the body, to leave maimed.
2. To settle something in advance.
3. To wag the tongue against someone, to bark or threaten.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• decreed ×6
• act decisively ×1
• are determined ×1
• have decided it ×1
• maimed ×1
• moved ×1
• will so much as move ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×3
• Daniel×3

• Exodus 11:7

  But against any of the sons of Israel not a dog will so much as move its tongue, against either man or beast, so that you may know that YHWH makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’

• Leviticus 22:22

  Blind, or broken, or maimed, or with warts, or with an itch, or with scabs: you shall not present these to YHWH, and you shall not give from them a fire offering on the altar to YHWH.

• Joshua 10:21

  that all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makkedah, in peace. No one moved his tongue against the sons of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 5:24

  And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then act decisively, for then YHWH will have gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”

• 1 Kings 20:40

  And it happened while your servant was busy here and there, that he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So is your judgment; you yourself have decided it.”

• Job 14:5

  If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; his limits you have made, and he will not pass them.

• Isaiah 10:22

  For even if your people, Israel, were like the sand of the sea, a remnant of it will return; destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

• Isaiah 10:23

  For Adonai YHWH Tsevaot is making an extermination, and it is decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

• Isaiah 28:22

  And now do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for an extermination, and one decreed, I have heard from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot upon all the earth.

• Daniel 9:26

  And after the sixty and two weeks an Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing; and the people of a leader who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place; and its end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

• Daniel 9:27

  And he will make strong a covenant with the many for one week; and in the middle of the week he will make sacrifice and offering cease; and on the wing of detestable things will come one who makes desolate, even until the complete destruction that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

• Daniel 11:36

  And the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and against El of gods he will speak astonishing things, and he will prosper until the indignation is completed, for what is decreed will be done.