חֲרַךְ
to singe
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2761 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 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.
חרך — transliterated chărak — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to singe.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. Its lone occurrence is Daniel 3:27. Related forms include חרר, חר and חרה. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2761 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Singed 1×
- American Standard Version: Singed 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Was singed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Singed 1×, Was 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2761 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2761 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2761 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2761 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- (Ithpael) to singe
Word origin
[ חֲרַךְ ] vb. singe;— Hithpa. Dn 3:27
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חרר (chârar) (H2787) — to burn.
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.
חָרַךְ
- to roast, parch.
- to char, burn bread so as to make it uneatable; to prepare a wick by charring. Pes. 21ᵇ חֵירְכוֹ קודם וכ׳ he charred the leavened bread before the time appointed for the removal of leavened matter. Y. Sabb. II, 5ᵃ top מְחָרְכִין (לין) לן they char them (the wicks).—Part. pass. מְחוֹרָךְ, fem. מְחוֹרֶכֶת, pl. מְחוֹרָכִין, מְחוֹרָכוֹת. Tosef. Sabb. II, 1 (v. Var. ed. Zuck.); Sabb. 29ᵃ (v. Tosaf. a. l.).
- to be singed, burnt. Tanḥ. Noah 13 נ׳ שער וכ׳ the hair of his head and beard was singed. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXXIII נִתְחָרְכוּ וכ׳ (not ב) his hair was singed. Y. Sabb. XVI, 15ᶜ הדורשה מִתְחָרֵךְ he who preaches it (the Agadah) will burn himself (at the fire of the Law); (Treat. Sof’rim XVI, 2 מתברך, corr. acc.)
חֲרַךְ
- 1. (neut. verb) to be burnt, blackened. Targ. Job XXX, 30 (h. text חרה). Targ. Jer. VI, 29 חֲרֵיךְ. Targ. Is. IX, 18 חֲרוֹכַת (ed. Lag. חרובת).
- 2. (act. verb) to burn, roast. Pes. 40ᵃ לא לִיחֲרוֹךְ וכ׳ one must not roast two ears &c.—Part. pass. חֲרִיךְ. B. Mets. 85ᵃ; Ber. 46ᵃ, a. e., v. חֲרוֹכָא.
- to burn, singe the hair off. Kidd. 41ᵃ מְחָרֵיךְ רישא he himself singed the hair off the animal’s head (in preparing for the Sabbath). Ab. Zar. 38ᵃ
- to be burnt &c. Targ. Y. Gen. XXI, 15 אתח׳ he was parched (with fever). Targ. Y. Ex. XII, 37.—B. Mets. 85ᵃ אִיחַרְכוּ שקיה (Ar. חרכו) his legs were burnt. B. Bath. 74ᵃ אִיחֲרַךְ אִיחֲרוּכֵי Ms. M. 2 (ed. … הוה איח׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) it (the wool) was singed. Nidd. 28ᵃ איחרך אִיחֲרוּכֵי Rashi (ed. איחרכי, corr. acc.) it (the corpse) was charred (not burnt to ashes).
חֵרֶךְ
- [burn, v. preced.] ḥerekh, a verbal substitute or ḥerem (חֵרֶם), v. כִּינּוּי. Ned. I, 2.—Pl. חֲרָכִים, v. חֲרָכַיָּיא.
חֲרָךְ I
- lattice, latticed window. Pesik. Haḥod., p. 49ᵇ כשם … בין חלון לח׳ as there is a difference between (the light as it comes through) an open window and a latticed window, so &c.; Num. R. s. 11; Pesik. R. s. 15; Yalk. Cant. 986 בין חלון לחלון (corr. acc.).—Pl. חֲרַכִּים, חֲרַכִּין,. Gen. R. s. 98.
*חֲרָךְ II
- (חָרַךְ) parched grain; תגרי ח׳ vendors of parched grain who sold also spices &c.; grocers (κάπηλοι). Pes. 116ᵃ; [oth. opin. vendors sitting behind lattices, v. preced.—Var. הָדֵךְ, v. דּוּךְ, pounded spices].
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2761, 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
- חר chôr H2715 noble
- חרה chârâh H2734 to be angry
- חרחר charchur H2746 fever
- חרר chârêr H2788 parched place
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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