חֶרֶשׁ

cheresh · secretly, silently

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2791 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

cheresh (חֶרֶשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “secretly, silently”.

Secretly, quietly.

How to say it

che·resh

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. Out of sight, so that no one finds out.
  2. The trade of one who works with his hands and skill.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • Craftsmen ×1
  • crafts ×1
  • secretly ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Joshua 2:1

    Then Joshua son of Nun sent from Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, “Go, see the land and Jericho.” So they went and came to the house of a woman, a prostitute, whose name was Rahab, and they lay down there.

  • Nehemiah 11:35

    Lod and Ono, the valley of the Craftsmen.

  • Isaiah 3:3

    commander of fifty and dignitary, and counselor and the wise in crafts, and the skilled in enchantment.