חֶ֫רֶס
Heres
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Heres’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2776 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.
Judges 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 name חרס centers on the idea of “Heres.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Judges (100%). It occurs only once, in Judges 1:35. For the data behind this summary, explore 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2776 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
- Judges 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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 4 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Heres 1×
- American Standard Version†: Heres 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Heres 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Heres 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2776 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2776 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2776 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2776 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
חרס I loc.
- 1. abode of Amorites, בְּהַר־חֶרֶס בְּאַיָּלוֹן וּבְשַׁעַלְבִֿים Ju 1:35, since חֶרֶס sun = שֶׁמֶשׁ, perhaps = בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ 1. (q.v.), so Stu (who proposes עִיר חֶרֶס = עָר), Ke Be BuRS17 Öt Bla 𝔊 ἐν τῷ [ὄρει τοῦ] Μυρσινῶνι(-ος) = הַר הֲדַס. e.g. Judges 1:35
- 2. place E. of Jordan מִלְמַעֲלֵה הֶחָ֑רֶס Ju 8:13 from the ascent of Ḥeres, 𝔊 Αρες; the point whence Gideon turned back from pursuing Midian; Aq Symm read הֶהָרִים (v. LagOnom. 96, 2nd ed. 131) so SS.—תִּמְנַת־חֶרֶס Ju 2:9 v. sub תִּמְנַת, √ מנה. e.g. Judges 8:13
חרס II [m.] an eruptive disease, itch (Aramaic חַרְסָא, ܚܶܪܣܳܐ
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.m. Ju 14:18 sun (NH id.)—abs. ח׳ Jb 9:7 (‖ כוכבים); c. ה epenth. בְּטֶרֶם יָבֹא הַחַ֫רְסָה Ju 14:18 (cf. לַיִל, לַיְלָה) before the sun could go down (but read perhaps הַחַ֫דְרָה into the (bridal) chamber StaZAW 1884, 253 ff.).
III. n.[m.] an eruptive disease, itch (Aramaic חַרְסָא, ܚܶܪܣܳܐ; also ܚܰܪܘܽܣ rough, etc.)—וּבֶחָ֑רֶס Dt 28:27 (‖ עפלים Kt, גָּרָב),—i, ii. חֶרֶס v. sub חרס.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חרס (chereç) (H2775) — itch.
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.
חֶרֶס I
- חֶרֶשׂ; חרס to be rough; to scrape)
- 1. common earthware. כלי ח׳ earthen vessel. Kel. III, 1 (ed. Dehr. חרש); a. v. fr.—Ib. 4 היה בה ח׳ if there remained of it a (sound) piece large enough to contain &c.—Tanḥ. Sh’laḥ. 1 (ref. to חֶרֶשׁ, Josh. II, 1) קרי ביה ח׳ read it ḥeres (with earthware, in the disguise of potters); Num. R. s. 16, beg. חרשׂ; a. fr.—Esp. (v. חַסְפָּא) potsherd. Y. Ned. I, 37ᵃ top; Y. Naz. I, beg. 51ᵃ והתני … לא חספא did not Bar K. say, ḥeres is a substitute for ḥerem (חֵרֶם)? now, does not this mean a sherd (which has no reference to anything forbidden either as sacred or as doomed to destruction)?; v. next w.—Pl. חֲרָסִים, חֲרָסִין. Kel. III, 4. Ib. IX, 5 (Ar. חֲרָשִׂין); a. e.—Ḥag. 13ᵇ (expl. בזק, Ez. I, 14) כאור … מבין הח׳ like the flames from between the perforated earthen pieces (used in smelting gold). e.g. Joshua 2:1
חֶרֶס II
- חרס to glow; cmp. חָרָה) the sun. Men. 110ᵃ (ref. to Is. XIX, 18) מאי עיר הח׳ (late eds. הה׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) what is Ir ha-Ḥeres? קרתא דבית שמשא the city of Beth-Shemesh; מאי משמע דהאי ח׳ לישנא וכ׳ where is the evidence that ḥeres means sun? (Answ. ref. to Job IX, 7). Y. Ned. I, 37ᵃ top; Y. Naz. I, beg. 51ᵃ ח׳ לשון גבוה הוא ḥeres (as a substitute for חֵרֶם, v. preced.) has reference to Deity, (as we read) ‘who speaks to the sun’ (Job l. c.). e.g. Isaiah 19:18
חֶרֶס III
- cmp. preced. a. an eruption of the skin. Bekh. 41ᵃ גרב זה הח׳ garab (v. גָּרָב) is the same as ḥeres
חֲרַס
- Targ. O. Deut. XXVIII, 27 (Y. quot. in Ar. חַרְסוֹנָא, v. חִיכּוּכָא).
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 H2776, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Heres). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Sun. (1.) "Mount Heres" (Judg. 1:35), Heb. Har-heres, i.e., "sun-mountain;" probably identical with Irshemesh in Josh. 19:41.
(2.) Isa. 19:18, marg. (See ON.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the sun), (Judges 1:35) a city of Dan, in Mount Ephraim, near Ajalon; possibly identical with Mount Jearim (Ir-shemesh, city of the gun).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the son; an earthen pot
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
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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