חָרַף

charaf · betrothed, reproach

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2778 · appears 41 times in the Bible

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What it means

charaf (חָרַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “betrothed, reproach”.

In one form, said of a woman: betrothed, promised to a man. In other forms, taunt, insult; also spend the winter.

How to say it

cha·raf

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

To defy or humble someone with words, to put them to shame.
For a woman to be engaged to a man without yet being married.
To spend the cold season in a place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

reproach ×8
reproaches ×6
taunt ×6
have reproached ×4
He taunted ×2
has reproached ×2
have you taunted ×2
taunted me ×2
they reproached ×2
you have taunted ×2
others ×5

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Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

Leviticus 19:20
And if a man lies with a woman with an emission of semen, and she is a slave woman promised to a man, but she has not been redeemed at all nor been given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not be put to death, for she was not free.
Judges 5:18
Zebulun is a people that exposed its life to death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field.
Judges 8:15
He came to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?’”
1 Samuel 17:10
The Philistine said, “I reproach the battle lines of Israel this day. Give me a man, and let us fight together.”
1 Samuel 17:25
The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely to reproach Israel he comes up. And it will be that the man who strikes him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make the house of his father free in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:26
David said to the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who strikes that Philistine and removes the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should reproach the battle lines of the living Elohim?”
1 Samuel 17:36
Both the lion and the bear your servant has struck; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has reproached the battle lines of the living Elohim.”
1 Samuel 17:45
David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword and with spear and with javelin; but I come to you in the name of YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of the battle lines of Israel, whom you have reproached.
2 Samuel 21:21
He taunted Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimeah, David’s brother, struck him.
2 Samuel 23:9
After him was Eleazar son of Dodo, son of an Ahohite, among the three mighty men with David when they taunted the Philistines who had gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.
2 Kings 19:4
Perhaps YHWH your Elohim will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to taunt the living Elohim, and will rebuke him for the words that YHWH your Elohim has heard; so lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
2 Kings 19:16
Incline, YHWH, your ear and hear; open, YHWH, your eyes and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to taunt the living Elohim.
2 Kings 19:22
Whom have you taunted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted on high your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
2 Kings 19:23
Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.
1 Chronicles 20:7
He taunted Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimea, David’s brother, struck him.
2 Chronicles 32:17
He also wrote letters to taunt YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands that have not delivered their people from my hand, so the Elohim of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”
Nehemiah 6:13
For this purpose he was hired: so that I would be afraid and act so and sin, and it would become for them an evil name, so that they could reproach me.
Job 27:6
To my righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Psalms 42:10
With murder in my bones my adversaries reproach me, when they say to me all the day, “Where is your Elohim?”
Psalms 44:16
at the voice of the one who reproaches and reviles, because of the enemy and the one who takes revenge.
Psalms 55:12
For it is not an enemy who reproaches me, or I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who has exalted himself against me, or I could hide from him;
Psalms 57:3
He will send from the heavens and save me, when the one who tramples me reproaches me; Selah. Elohim will send his loyal love and his truth.
Psalms 69:9
For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Psalms 74:10
How long, Elohim, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy spurn your name forever?
Psalms 74:18
Remember this: the enemy has reproached, YHWH, and a foolish people has spurned your name.
Psalms 79:12
And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Adonai.
Psalms 89:51
with which your enemies have reproached, YHWH, with which they have reproached the footprints of your anointed.
Psalms 102:8
All the day my enemies taunt me; those who rage against me swear by me.
Psalms 119:42
And I will answer the one who taunts me with a word, for I have trusted in your word.
Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but whoever shows favor to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; whoever rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, and I will return a word to whoever reproaches me.
Isaiah 18:6
They will be left together for the bird of prey of the mountains and for the beasts of the earth; and the bird of prey will spend the summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will spend the winter on them.
Isaiah 37:4
Perhaps YHWH your Elohim will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to taunt the living Elohim, and will rebuke him for the words that YHWH your Elohim has heard; so lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
Isaiah 37:17
Incline, YHWH, your ear and hear; open, YHWH, your eyes and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to taunt the living Elohim.
Isaiah 37:23
Whom have you taunted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted on high your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Isaiah 37:24
Through your servants you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter the height of its farthest end, the forest of its orchard.
Isaiah 65:7
your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, says YHWH, who burned incense on the mountains and on the hills taunted me; and I will measure their wages first into their bosom.”
Zephaniah 2:8
“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they reproached my people and made themselves great against their territory.
Zephaniah 2:10
This will be theirs in place of their pride, because they reproached and made themselves great against the people of YHWH Tsevaot.

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