choresh · thicket, Horesh

What it means

choresh (חֹרֶשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thicket, Horesh”.

Thicket, wood. In 1 Samuel 23 it may be a place name ("Horesh") or mean "the thicket".

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.

How it is translated

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

• Horesh ×4
• forests ×1
• thicket ×1
• woodland ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• 1 Samuel 23:15

  David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life, while David was in the wilderness of Ziph, at Horesh.

• 1 Samuel 23:16

  Jonathan son of Saul arose and went to David at Horesh and strengthened his hand in Elohim.

• 1 Samuel 23:18

  The two of them made a covenant before YHWH; David stayed at Horesh, and Jonathan went to his house.

• 1 Samuel 23:19

  Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is to the south of the wasteland?

• 2 Chronicles 27:4

  He built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built fortresses and towers.

• Isaiah 17:9

  On that day the cities of his stronghold will be like the abandoned places of the woodland and of the hilltop which they abandoned from before the sons of Israel; and there will be desolation.

• Ezekiel 31:3

  Look, Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, beautiful of branches, and a thicket giving shade, and tall of stature, and among the thick foliage was its top.