חָרַם
châram · khaw-ram'
to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose
- to seclude
- specifically, (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction)
- physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To separate and protect of the head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָרַם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
52 occurrences · 52 OT · 0 NT · 50 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and utterly destroyed4 · 12%
- and utterly destroy3 · 9%
- and they utterly destroyed2 · 6%
- utterly destroying2 · 6%
- destroy2 · 6%
- by destroying them utterly2 · 6%
- only, he shall be utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- or he that hath a flat nose1 · 3%
- shall devote1 · 3%
- devoted1 · 3%
- then i will utterly destroy1 · 3%
- and we utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- them, and utterly1 · 3%
- destroying it utterly1 · 3%
- but thou shalt utterly1 · 3%
- whom ye utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- lest ye make yourselves accursed1 · 3%
- until he had utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- and had utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- thereof he utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- that were therein he utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- but destroyed1 · 3%
- but utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- and he utterly destroyed1 · 3%
- that he might destroy them utterly1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.