chadash · new

What it means

chadash (חָדָשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “new”.

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. What is recent, not yet used, or appearing for the first time.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

New: what has not been used before or what appears for the first time. It comes from the verb חָדַשׁ, ‘renew’ (H2318); from the same root is חֹדֶשׁ, the new moon and the month.

• Unused things: cart, house, ropes, newly married wife 1 Samuel 6:7Deuteronomy 20:5Judges 15:13
• “A new song” Psalms 33:3Psalms 96:1Isaiah 42:10
• What is new that YHWH does or promises Isaiah 43:19Jeremiah 31:31Isaiah 65:17
• “A new heart and a new spirit” Ezekiel 36:26Ezekiel 18:31
• “There is nothing new under the sun” Ecclesiastes 1:9

Historical and cultural background

Whoever had built a new house and had not dedicated it was released from going to war (Deuteronomy 20:5), and the man who took a new wife, for a whole year (Deuteronomy 24:5). The new cart with cows on which no yoke had come brings back the ark (1 Samuel 6:7).

How we translate it

Always “new” (53 times). In Jeremiah 26:10 and 36:10 it is the name of a gate of the temple, “the New {Gate}”, capitalized.

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×1
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×5

• Exodus 1:8

  Then there arose over Egypt a new king who did not know Joseph.

• Leviticus 23:16

  Until the day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days, and you shall present a new grain offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 26:10

  And you will eat old grain long stored, and you will clear out the old to make room for the new.

• Numbers 28:26

  And on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to YHWH at your feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

• Deuteronomy 20:5

  And the supervisors shall speak to the people, saying, “Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the war and another man dedicate it.

• Deuteronomy 22:8

  When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falling falls from it.

• Deuteronomy 24:5

  When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army, and nothing at all shall be laid on him. He shall be free for his house one year and shall make his wife whom he has taken glad.

• Deuteronomy 32:17

  They sacrificed to demons, who are not Eloah, to gods they had not known, new ones who came from nearby, whom your fathers did not dread.

• Joshua 9:13

  And these wineskins that we filled new, look, they have split; and these cloaks of ours and our sandals have worn out from the very great length of the journey.”

• Judges 5:8

  Israel chose new gods; then there was war in the gates. Was a shield seen, or a spear, among forty thousand in Israel?

• Judges 15:13

  And they said to him, “No, but we will surely bind you and give you into their hand, but we will certainly not put you to death.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the crag.

• Judges 16:11

  And he said to her, “If they bind me tightly with new ropes with which no work has been done, then I will become weak and be like any human being.”

• Judges 16:12

  So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the ambush was waiting in the room. But he snapped them from off his arms like a thread.

• 1 Samuel 6:7

  So now, take and make one new cart and two nursing cows on which no yoke has come and hitch the cows to the cart, and take their calves back home from behind them.

• 2 Samuel 6:3

  They set the ark of Elohim on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart.

• 2 Samuel 21:16

  And Ishbi-benob, who was one of the descendants of Rapha —the weight of his spear was three hundred shekels in weight of bronze, and he was girded with a new sword— said that he would strike David.

• 1 Kings 11:29

  And it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, that Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, found him on the road; and he had covered himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the field.

• 1 Kings 11:30

  And Ahijah grabbed the new cloak that was on him and tore it into twelve pieces.

• 2 Kings 2:20

  He said, “Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.

• 1 Chronicles 13:7

  They set the ark of Elohim on a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart.

• 2 Chronicles 20:5

  Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of YHWH, before the new court,

• Job 29:20

  My honor is new with me, and my bow in my hand is renewed.’

• Job 32:19

  Look, my belly is like wine that is not opened; like new wineskins it is bursting.

• Psalms 33:3

  Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with acclamation.

• Psalms 40:3

  And he put in my mouth a new song, praise to our Elohim; many will see and fear and trust in YHWH.

• Psalms 96:1

  Sing to YHWH a new song; sing to YHWH, all the earth.

• Psalms 98:1

  A psalm. Sing to YHWH a new song, for he has done wonders; his right hand and his holy arm have saved him.

• Psalms 144:9

  Elohim, a new song I will sing to you; on a harp of ten strings I will sing psalms to you,

• Psalms 149:1

  Praise Yah. Sing to YHWH a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful.

• Ecclesiastes 1:9

  What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 1:10

  There is a thing of which one says, “See this: it is new”; already it has been in the ages that were before us.

• Song of Songs 7:13

  The mandrakes give fragrance, and at our doors are every kind of choice fruit, new and also old; my beloved, for you I have stored them up.

• Isaiah 41:15

  Look, I have made you into a threshing sledge, sharp, new, double-edged; you will thresh mountains and crush them, and the hills like chaff you will make.

• Isaiah 42:9

  The former things, look, have come, and new things I declare; before they spring up I make you hear them.”

• Isaiah 42:10

  Sing to YHWH a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and what fills it, coastlands and their inhabitants.

• Isaiah 43:19

  Look, I am doing a new thing; now it springs up; will you not know it? Indeed, I will make in the wilderness a way, in the wasteland rivers.

• Isaiah 48:6

  You have heard; see all of it; and you, will you not declare it? I have made you hear new things from now on, and things kept in store, and you did not know them.

• Isaiah 62:2

  And nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name that the mouth of YHWH will designate.

• Isaiah 65:17

  For look, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor rise in the heart.

• Isaiah 66:22

  For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make stand before me, declares YHWH, so your offspring and your name will stand.

And 13 more times.