חַרְשָׁא
Harsha
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Harsha’ fuller range ↓
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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2797 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 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.
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 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.
חרשא — transliterated Charshâʼ — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Harsha.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezra (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in Ezra 2:52. 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 H2797 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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 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: Harsha 2×
- American Standard Version: Harsha 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Harsha 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Harsha 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2797 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2797 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2797 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2797 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 2 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.
- Harsha = "mute"
- head of a family of exiles returning with Zerubbabel
Word origin
n.pr.m. head of a family of returning exiles Ezr 2:52 𝔊 Αρησα, 𝔊L Βαασα, = Ne 7:54 𝔊 Αδασα.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חרש (Cheresh) (H2792) — Heresh.
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.
חַרְשָׁא
- Targ. Ex. IV, 11; a. fr.—Pl. חֵרְשִׁין, חַרְשַׁיָּא. Targ. Is. LVI, 10; a. e.—Y. Ber. IX, end, 14ᵈ כל חרשייא טבין וכ׳ Var. (v. כַּדָּבָא) all dumb (silent) persons are good, but those silent (abstaining) from reciting the Law are bad.
חָרָשָׁא
- (v. חֶרֶשׁ; cmp. לַחַשׁ) fascinator, charmer, sorcerer. Targ. O. Deut. XVIII, 10 (some ed. חֲרָשׁ); a. e.—Cant. R. to III, 6. Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ bot. עיסקיה דהדין ח׳ וכ׳ it is the nature of a sorcerer that he can do nothing when lifted from the ground. Ber. 62ᵃ bot. (in an incantation) לא חַרְשֵׁי דח׳ וכ׳ (Var. דחָרָשֵׁי … pl., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l, note 8) no charm of a sorcerer or of a sorceress.—Pl. חָרָשִׁין, חָרָשַׁיָּא, חָרָשֵׁי, חֲרָ׳. Targ. Y. Deut. l. c. (ed. Amst. חַרְשִׁין). Targ. Ps. LVIII, 6; a. e.—Y. Ḥag. l. c.; Y. Snh. VI, 23ᶜ bot.—Fem. חָרָשָׁא חֲרַשְׁתָּא,. Targ. O. Ex. XXII, 17.—Ber. l. c. (Var. חַרְשִׁיתָא).—V. חַרְשִׁין.
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.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Harsha). 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
Worker or enchanter, one of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:52; Neh. 7:54).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(deaf). Bene-Harsha were among the families of Nethinim who came back from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:54)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
workmanship; a wood
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 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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