cheres · itch, sun

What it means

cheres (חֶרֶס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “itch, sun”.

Itch: a skin disease that itches; the same word also means "sun."

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. Skin irritation from disease.
2. The star that lights the day and warms the earth.
3. Name of an ascent, meaning "the daystar".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sun ×2
• Heres ×1
• itch ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• Job×1

• Deuteronomy 28:27

  YHWH will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with scabs and with itch, from which you will not be able to be healed.

• Judges 8:13

  Gideon son of Joash returned from the war by the ascent of Heres.

• Judges 14:18

  And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”

• Job 9:7

  who speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars;