# H2790 חָרַשׁ

חָרַשׁ (chârash), Strong’s H2790: to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad… KJV: [idiom]…

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*chârash* — to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad…

KJV: [idiom] altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off…

Occurs 72 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָרֵשׁ] vb. 1. be silent, dumb, speechless; 2. be deaf; chiefly poet.
- Qal
- 1 be silent, alw. of God’s keeping silence when men pray
- 2 be deaf
- Hiph.
- 1 be silent (= exhibit silence)
- 2 once causat. make silent
- 3 be deaf, shew deafness
- חָרַשׁ vb
- [חָרַשׁ] vb. cut in, engrave, plough, devise
- Qal
- 1 cut in, engrave
- 2 plough
- 3 devise
- Niph. Zion, as a field she shall be ploughed
- Hiph. fabricating mischief against

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 24:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=21) — The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
- [Genesis 34:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=5) — Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held…
- [Exodus 14:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=14) — The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
- [Numbers 30:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/30?v=5) — and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then…
- [Numbers 30:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/30?v=8) — and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her…
- [Numbers 30:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/30?v=12) — and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every…
- [Numbers 30:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/30?v=15) — But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are…
- [Deuteronomy 22:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/22?v=10) — You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
- [Judges 14:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/14?v=18) — The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is…
- [Judges 16:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=2) — The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city…