חֲרָשִׁים
Charashim
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Charashim’ 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 H2798 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.
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.
At its core, חרשים (Chărâshîym) means “Charashim.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Chronicles (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is 1 Chronicles 4:14. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2798 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
- 1 Chronicles 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
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: Charashim 1×
- American Standard Version: Ge-harashim 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Craftsmen 1×, Ge-harashim 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Harashim 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2798 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2798 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2798 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2798 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- Charashim or Harashim = "valley of craftsmen"
- a valley near Lydda, a few miles east of Joppa, founded by Joab of Othniel's family
Word origin
v. חָרָשׁ and גַּיְא; also ii. חֶרֶשׁ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חרש (chârâsh) (H2796) — craftsman.
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.
חוֹרֶשׁ
- [difficult of accession,] thicket, wild-growing bushes. Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᶜ ונעשה ח׳ גדול and it grew to a large thicket of reeds; Cant. R. to I, 6. Lev. R. s. 29 ניתש מח׳ זה וכ׳ tears himself loose from one thicket and is caught in another; Y. Taan. II, 65ᵈ top; Pesik. Baḥod., p. 154ᵇ חדש (corr. acc.), v. נָטַשׁ; Yalk. Lev. 645.—Pl. חוֹרָשִׁים, חוֹרָשִׁין, חֳרָשִׁים. B. Kam. 81ᵃ top שהיו מרעין בח׳ that people shall have the privilege of pasture on untilled lands. Ib. 79ᵇ, opp. יישוב. Ib. 80ᵃ. Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵃ top, v. בָּהָה; Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵇ bot. בחד׳ (corr. acc.).
חָרָשׁ
- artist, artisan, carpenter, turner (faber). Deut. R. s. 2 לח׳ שהיה וכ׳ like an artist that was making an image &c.—Pl. חָרָשִׁים. Gen. R. s. 65, end; s. 70, v. חֲמוֹר; Pesik. Shek., p. 15ᵃ.—Trsnf. scholar. Gitt. 88ᵃ (ref. to II Kings XXIV, 16) חָ׳ שבשעה … כחֵרְשִׁין the scholars were named ḥarash, for when they opened argument, all were like dumb; Snh. 38ᵃ; Yalk. Dan. 1066; a. e.—Pl. as above. Ḥag. 14ᵃ (ref. to Is. III, 3). e.g. 2 Kings 24:16
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 (Charashim). 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
Craftsmen, a valley named in 1 Chr. 4:14. In Neh. 11:35 the Hebrew word is rendered "valley of craftsmen" (R.V. marg., Geha-rashim). Nothing is known of it.
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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