חָרִיץ
sharp instrument
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H2757 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 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 חריץ centers on the idea of “sharp instrument.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. 1 Samuel dominates its distribution — 1 of 3 verses. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Samuel 17:18. Related forms include חרץ, חרוץ and חרץ. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2757 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Samuel 1 verse 33%
- 2 Samuel 1 verse 33%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 33%
By section of the Old Testament
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 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
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: Harrows 1×, Under harrows 1×
- American Standard Version: Harrows 1×, Under harrows 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Picks 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Picks of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2757 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2757 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2757 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2757 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- a cut, thing cut, sharp instrument, sharp cutting instrument, harrow, hoe
Word origin
[ חָרִיץ ] n.m. a cut, thing cut, sharp instrument
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חרץ (chârats) (H2782) — to sharpen.
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.
חָרִיץ
- 1. incision, furrow, trench. Kil. V, 3. Ib. II, 8. Meg. 14ᵃ top.—Sabb. 22ᵃ לעשות ח׳ to make a rut in the floor; Y. ib. III, 6ᵃ top; Y. Bets. II, end, 61ᵈ חֶרֶץ.—Ḥull. 55ᵇ top מקום ח׳ (Ar. חרץ) at the indentation in the kidneys. Men. 34ᵇ אם אין חֲרִיצָן ניכר (Ar. חַרְצָן; Ms. M. חוט, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) if the grooves marking the partitions in the T’fillin are not distinguishable; a. fr.—Pl. חָרִיצִים, חָרִיצִין. B. Kam. V, 5; a. fr.
- 2. (from the shape) eye-lids with eye-lashes. Bekh. VI, 2 (38ᵃ) ח׳ של עין Ar. (Mish. רִיס, Talm. ed. הרִיס). Gitt. 56ᵃ בח׳ של עין Ar. (ed. בדוֹקִין).
- 3. an abnormal depression or cavity in the body. Bekh. 41ᵃ bot. ח׳ במקום בשר, v. חָרוּץ.
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 3 distinct written forms H2757 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/בַ/חֲרִיצֵ֤י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 1 Chronicles 20:3 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ/חֲרִצֵ֨י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 2 Samuel 12:31 | 1 |
| חֲרִצֵ֤י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 1 Samuel 17:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2757, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
