חֵרֵשׁ
cheresh · deaf
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2795 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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cheresh (חֵרֵשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deaf”.
How to say it
che·resh
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
- Someone who cannot hear.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 4:11
YHWH said to him, “Who gave a mouth to a human being? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, YHWH?
- Leviticus 19:14
You shall not curse a deaf person and before a blind person you shall not put a stumbling block; but you shall fear your Elohim. I am YHWH.
- Psalms 38:13
But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
- Psalms 58:4
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
- Isaiah 29:18
And on that day the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of gloom and out of darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
- Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
- Isaiah 42:18
You deaf, hear; and you blind, look to see.
- Isaiah 42:19
Who is blind but my servant, or deaf like my messenger whom I send? Who is blind like the one at peace with me, or blind like the servant of YHWH?
- Isaiah 43:8
Bring out the people who are blind yet have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.