charash · craftsman

What it means

charash (חָרָשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “craftsman”.

One who works stone, wood or metal.

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. One who works in rock, wood or metal.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• craftsmen ×19
• craftsman ×11
• engraver ×2
• carpenters ×1
• smith ×1
• stonecutter ×1
• workers ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×5
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×1
• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×2
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 28:11

  As the work of a stonecutter, with engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; mounted in settings of gold you shall make them.

• Exodus 35:35

  He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all the work of the engraver, and of the designer, and of the embroiderer in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, doers of every work and devisers of designs.

• Exodus 38:23

  And with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a designer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and in fine linen.

• Deuteronomy 27:15

  ‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved image or a cast image, an abomination to YHWH, the work of the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

• 1 Samuel 13:19

  No smith was found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make sword or spear.”

• 2 Samuel 5:11

  Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and craftsmen in wood and craftsmen in wall stone, and they built a house for David.

• 2 Kings 12:11

  They would give the silver that had been weighed out into the hands of those doing the work, who were appointed over the house of YHWH; and they paid it out to the craftsmen in wood and to the builders who were working on the house of YHWH,

• 2 Kings 22:6

  to the carpenters, the builders, and the masons, and to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the house.

• 2 Kings 24:14

  He carried into exile all Jerusalem, and all the officials, and all the mighty men of the force, ten thousand exiles, and every craftsman and smith; none remained except the poorest of the people of the land.

• 2 Kings 24:16

  and all the men of the force, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, a thousand, all of them mighty men who waged war; and the king of Babylon brought them into exile to Babylon.

• 1 Chronicles 4:14

  And Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of the Valley of Craftsmen, for they were craftsmen.

• 1 Chronicles 14:1

  Huram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and craftsmen in wall and craftsmen in wood, to build him a house.

• 1 Chronicles 22:15

  You have with you in abundance those who do the work: stonecutters, and workers in stone and wood, and all who are skilled in every kind of work.

• 1 Chronicles 29:5

  the gold for the things of gold and the silver for the things of silver, and for all the work by the hand of the craftsmen. Who then offers willingly to fill his hand today for YHWH?”

• 2 Chronicles 24:12

  The king and Jehoiada gave it to those doing the work of the service of the house of YHWH; and they were hiring stonecutters and craftsmen to renew the house of YHWH, and also craftsmen in iron and bronze to repair the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 34:11

  They gave it to the craftsmen and to the builders, to buy quarried stones and timber for the clamps, and to provide beams for the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.

• Ezra 3:7

  And they gave money to the stonecutters and to the craftsmen, and food and drink and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the permission of Cyrus king of Persia for them.

• Isaiah 40:19

  The carved image? A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and chains of silver the goldsmith casts.

• Isaiah 40:20

  The one too poor for a contribution chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skilled craftsman to make firm a carved image that will not totter.

• Isaiah 41:7

  And the craftsman encourages the goldsmith, he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and he fastens it with nails, so that it will not totter.

• Isaiah 44:11

  Look, all his companions will be put to shame, and the craftsmen, they are from among human beings; let them gather, all of them, let them stand up; they will be in dread, they will be put to shame together.

• Isaiah 44:12

  The craftsman of iron with a tool works it over the coals, and with hammers he shapes it, and works it with his strong arm; also he is hungry, and there is no strength; he does not drink water, and he grows tired.

• Isaiah 44:13

  The craftsman of wood stretches out a line; he marks it out with a stylus; he makes it with planes, and with the compass he marks it out, and makes it like the figure of a man, like the beauty of a human being, to dwell in a house.

• Isaiah 45:16

  They were put to shame, and also humiliated, all of them; together they went off in humiliation, the craftsmen of images.

• Isaiah 54:16

  Look, I have created the craftsman who blows the coals in the fire and brings out a tool for his work; and I have created the destroyer to ruin.

• Jeremiah 10:3

  For the statutes of the peoples are vapor; for a tree from the forest one cuts down, the work of the hands of a craftsman with the tool.

• Jeremiah 10:9

  Silver beaten flat is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; blue and purple is their clothing, the work of wise men all of them.

• Jeremiah 24:1

  YHWH showed me, and look, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of YHWH, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 29:2

  after Jeconiah the king had gone out, and the lady, and the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen and the smiths, from Jerusalem,

• Ezekiel 21:31

  And I will pour out on you my indignation; with the fire of my wrath I will blow on you; and I will give you into the hand of brutish men, craftsmen of destruction.

• Hosea 8:6

  For from Israel is it too; a craftsman made it, and it is not Elohim; for the calf of Samaria will be splinters.

• Hosea 13:2

  And now they keep sinning, and they have made for themselves a cast image from their silver, idols according to their understanding, the work of craftsmen, all of it; to them they say, “Those who sacrifice human beings, let them kiss calves.”

• Zechariah 1:20

  And YHWH showed me four craftsmen.

And 3 more times.