חָרִישׁ

charish · plowing

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2758 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

charish (חָרִישׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plowing”.

The season of plowing and sowing.

How to say it

cha·rish

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. The work of breaking the ground for sowing; its season.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • plowing ×2
  • plowland ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 45:6

    For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing or harvest.

  • Exodus 34:21

    Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall cease; in plowing time and in harvest you shall cease.

  • 1 Samuel 8:12

    and he will appoint for himself chiefs of thousands and chiefs of fifties, and some to plow his plowland and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and the equipment of his chariots.