חֲרֹ֫שֶׁת
carving
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2799 appears — 2 distinct verses 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.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 31:5 וּ/בַ/חֲרֹ֥שֶׁת וּ/בַ/חֲרֹ֣שֶׁת conj + prep + n c fs cs conj + prep + n c fs cs and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.
- Exodus 35:33 וּ/בַ/חֲרֹ֥שֶׁת וּ/בַ/חֲרֹ֣שֶׁת conj + prep + n c fs cs conj + prep + n c fs cs in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
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.
“carving” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun חרשת (chărôsheth). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. It clusters heavily in Exodus, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. First canonically at Exodus 31:5, it enters the text early. From the same root come חרש, חריש and חרישי. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2799 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.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 2 verses 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 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 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: Carving 2×, Cutting 2×
- American Standard Version: Carving 2×, Cutting 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Carve 2×, Cut 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Carving of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2799 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2799 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2799 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2799 across 4 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.
- carving, skilful working
Word origin
חֲרֹ֫שֶׁת n.f. carving, skilful working
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חרש (chârash) (H2790) — to plough.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2799 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/בַ/חֲרֹ֣שֶׁת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 31:5 | 2 |
| וּ/בַ/חֲרֹ֥שֶׁת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 31:5 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2799, 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
- חריש chârîysh H2758 ploughing
- חרישי chărîyshîy H2759 harsh
- חרש cheresh H2791 silently
- חרש chôresh H2793 forest
- חרש chôrêsh H2794 metalworker
- חרש chêrêsh H2795 deaf
- חרש chârâsh H2796 craftsman
- מחרשה machărêshâh H4281 plowshare
- מחרשת machăresheth H4282 plowshare
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 12 — 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 2 verses that also exist 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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
