חֶרֶט
cheret · engraving tool
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2747 · appears 2 times in the Bible
What is the Strong number?
Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
cheret (חֶרֶט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “engraving tool”.
Chisel, engraving tool; also a stylus for writing (Isaiah 8:1).
How to say it
che·ret
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
- A pointed instrument for carving or writing.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- engraving tool ×1
- stylus ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 32:4
And he took it from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a calf of cast metal. And they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- Isaiah 8:1
And YHWH said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet, and write on it with the stylus of a man: ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’”