חֶ֫רֶט
stylus
also: an engraving tool, chisel, graving tool fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where H2747 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun חרט centers on the idea of “stylus.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Exodus (50%), then Isaiah. Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 32:4. BDB distinguishes 3 senses; alongside “stylus” it spans “an engraving tool”, “chisel”, and “graving tool”. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2747 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Graving tool 1×, Pen 1×
- American Standard Version: Graving tool 1×, Pen 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Engraving tool 1×, Stylus 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stylus of 1×, Tool 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2747 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2747 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2747 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2747 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- an engraving tool, stylus, chisel, graving tool
- graving tool
- stylus
Word origin
חֶ֫רֶט n.[m.] graving-tool, stylus
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from a primitive root meaning to engrave
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָרַט
- (b. h.) to scrape; to chisel. Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 14 below the Israelites were sitting חוֹרְטִין את העגל וכ׳ chiselling the calf …, and above the Lord engraving the tablets.
- to model. Pirké d’R. El. ch. III אם איני מַחֲרִיט … יסודותיו וכ׳ unless he models … its foundations and its entrances and exits, he does not begin to build. Ib. הקב"ה ה׳ לפניו וכ׳ the Lord modelled before Him the world, but it would not stand.
- [to scratch one’s self,] to regret, feel sorry. Ḥag. 5ᵃ ומִתְחָרֵט בו and feels sorry for it. Nidd. 31ᵇ מִתְחָרֶטֶת she regrets (her vow of abstinence); a. fr. V. חֲרָטָה.
חֲרַט
- , to regret. Targ. Cant. V, 4 למֶחְרַט to repent.—Pes. 113ᵃ ותֶחְרַט, v. זְבַן.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2747 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/חֶ֣רֶט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 8:1 | 1 |
| בַּ/חֶ֔רֶט | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 32:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2747, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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