charuts · threshing sledge, gold

What it means

charuts (חֲרוּץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “threshing sledge, gold”.

A threshing sledge: a board with spikes for threshing; also something sharp or cutting. Elsewhere, "gold" or "trench."

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. Someone who works with effort and does not tire.
2. A spiked board to separate grain.
3. A wide ditch dug around a city.
4. A precious yellow metal of great value.
5. What is settled in the end, the verdict upon the nations.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• gold ×6
• diligent ×5
• decision ×2
• threshing sledge ×2
• moat ×1
• sharp ×1
• threshing sledges ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×9
• Isaiah×2
• Daniel×1
• Joel×2
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Job 41:30

  Under it are points of potsherd; it spreads a threshing sledge on the mud.

• Psalms 68:13

  Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and its feathers with greenish gold.”

• Proverbs 3:14

  for her profit is better than the profit of silver, and her yield than gold.

• Proverbs 8:10

  Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

• Proverbs 8:19

  My fruit is better than gold, even than fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

• Proverbs 10:4

  A slack palm makes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

• Proverbs 12:24

  The hand of the diligent will rule, but slackness will be for forced labor.

• Proverbs 12:27

  Slackness does not roast its game, but the precious wealth of a man is the diligent one.

• Proverbs 13:4

  The soul of the sluggard craves, and there is nothing; but the soul of the diligent will be filled to the full.

• Proverbs 16:16

  To acquire wisdom, how much better than gold! And to acquire understanding, more to be chosen than silver!

• Proverbs 21:5

  The thoughts of the diligent lead only to profit, but everyone who hurries only to want.

• Isaiah 28:27

  For black cumin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a cart rolled over cumin; but black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

• 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.

• Daniel 9:25

  So know and understand: from the going out of a word to restore and to build Jerusalem until an Anointed One, a Leader, there will be seven weeks; and for sixty and two weeks it will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in the distress of the times.

• Joel 3:14

  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For near is the day of YHWH in the valley of decision.

• Amos 1:3

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

• Zechariah 9:3

  And Tyre built a bulwark for herself, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.

And 1 more times.