חָרֵר
parched place
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H2788 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.
Jeremiah 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.
חרר (chârêr) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “parched place.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Jeremiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Jeremiah 17:6. From the same root come חרר, חר and חרה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2788 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
- Jeremiah 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).
- King James Version: Parched places 1×
- American Standard Version: Parched places 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Parched places 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Parched places 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2788 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2788 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2788 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2788 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- dry regions, parched place
Word origin
[ חָרֵר ] n.[m.] parched place, only pl. abs. Je 17:6
— 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.
חוּר I
- (cmp. preced. wds.) to bore. Sabb. 103ᵃ חָר חורתא he bored a hole.
חָרַר I
- , Pi. חֵרֵר (v. חוֹר I) to break through, to cave. Ohol. III, 7; Succ. 20ᵇ חור שחֵרְרוּהוּ מים (or שחֲרָרוּהוּ) a cavity made by water, by animals &c.
חֲרַר
- , to perforate.—Part. pass. חֲרִיר discharging (v. חָרַיָּא). Targ. Y. Lev. XV, 3 חֲ׳ … ית וכ׳ (some ed. חָרֵיר part. act.) his membrum discharges &c.
חָרַר II
- , Pi. חֵרֵר (denom. of חוֹר II) to set free.—Part. pass. מְחוֹרָר freed, free. Gen. R. s. 14, end (ref. to Gen. II, 7 נפש חיה) עבד מח׳ בפני עצמו וכ׳ (Var. מכודן, v. כָּדַן) a freed slave left to himself for a living.—Keth. 51ᵇ; B. Kam. 95ᵃ המְחוֹרָרִין (נכסים) unencumbered property. [Shaf. שִׁחֲרֵר.] e.g. Genesis 2:7
חֲרַר ²
- , to set free. Targ. Y. Gen. XVI, 2 אַחְרְרִינָהּ I will liberate her. Ib. 3 חֲרַרְתָּהּ (not … תא). Ib. 5.
- to be set free. Targ. Lev. XIX, 20.
חָרַר III
- [to be rough, excited,] to glow. Pilp. חִרְחֵר, q. v.
חֲרַר ³
- , to burn, to be blackened, charred. Targ. Ps. II, 12 יֵיחוֹר. Ib. CII, 4. Targ. Ez. XV, 4, sq. חַר; a. e.
- to stir the fire. Ab. Zar. 38ᵇ חָרוּרֵי, v. חֲרֵי.]
- to be heated, dried up. Targ. II Esth. V, 1.
- same. Targ. Ps. LXIX, 4.
חָרַר IV
- (cmp. חרר I) to heap up, round. Denom. חֲרָרָה, חוֹרָר.
חֲרַר ⁴
- same.—Pa. חָרֵיר to round, make a חֲרָרָא. Targ. Ez. IV, 12 (some ed. תַּחְרְ׳ Af.; h. text תעגינה).
חֵרַר
- freedom, v. חֵירַר.
חָרָר
- 1. needle-eye, v. חוֹר 1. 1.
- 2. pile, v. חוֹרָר.—pl. חֲרָרִין, v. חֲרָרָה.
חֲרָר
- c. = next w.,
- 1. a cake. Targ. Jud. VII, 13 (h. text צליל). Targ. I Kings XVII, 13 (h. text עגה); a. fr.—Pesik. R. s. 18 [read:] תמן אמרין עבדין מיניה ח׳ לכלבא ולא טעמיה there (in Babylonia) they say, they made out of it a cake for a dog, but he would not taste it (v. Erub. 81ᵃ); Pesik. Haomer, p. 71ᵇ חֲרָרָה.—Pl. חֲרָרָן. Targ. Y. I Num. XI, 8. Targ. Y. Ex. XII, 39 (some ed. חֲרִירָן; חרידן, corr. acc.).
- 2. clot. Lev. R. s. 24 ח׳ דדמא (ed. חרדא, חרדה, corr. acc.) a clot of blood.
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 H2788, 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
- חרך chărak H2761 to singe
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 7 — 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.
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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