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H2763 חָרַם (châram) khaw-ram'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

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

KJV Usage: make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

חָרַם (cha.ram) — to devote/destroy. 1) to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to prohibit (for common use), ban 1a2) to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction 1a3) to exterminate, completely destroy 1b) (Hophal) 1b1) to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction 1b2) to be devoted, be forfeited 1b3) to be completely destroyed

חָרַם (cha.ram) — to slash. 1) to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body) 1a) (Qal) to mutilate 1b) (Hiphil) to divide

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · חֵרֶם · חָרִם · חֳרֵם · חָרְמָה · חֶרְמֹון

Impact | verb qal sg

(someone with a) split, disfigured (ear, nose, or lip) = state in which an object is (partly or entirely) split into two parts

LEV 21:18

Impact | verb hif

to split into two parts = causative action by which deities split a body of water into two parts

ISA 11:15

Dissociate | verb hif

to devote oneself to God, to proscribe oneself = action by which humans set themselves irrevocably apart for God by their actions, ► which means condemning themselves to death

JOS 6:18

Dissociate | verb hif, verb hof | ≈ בדל · נתן לַטֶּבַח

to proscribe, to devote = causative actions by which humans set someone or something irrevocably apart for a deity, ► as a result of which people and animals are to be put to death, cities are to be destroyed, and other objects are to be set apart for the service of that deity

EXO 22:19 · LEV 27:28 · LEV 27:29 · JOS 6:18 · EZR 10:8 · ISA 34:2 · MIC 4:13

Non-Exist | verb hif

to proscribe, to kill, to exterminate, to destroy = causative action by which humans set towns, people, animals, and objects irrevocably apart for the service of God by destroying the towns, putting the people and the animals to death, and by setting apart valuable objects for the service of God

NUM 21:2 · NUM 21:3 · DEU 2:34 · DEU 3:6 · DEU 3:6 · DEU 7:2 · DEU 7:2 · DEU 13:16 · DEU 20:17 · DEU 20:17 · JOS 2:10 · JOS 6:21 · JOS 8:26 · JOS 10:1 · JOS 10:28 · JOS 10:35 · JOS 10:37 · JOS 10:39 · JOS 10:40 · JOS 11:11 · JOS 11:12 · JOS 11:20 · JOS 11:21 · JDG 1:17 · JDG 21:11 · 1SA 15:3 · 1SA 15:8 · 1SA 15:9 · 1SA 15:9 · 1SA 15:15 · 1SA 15:18 · 1SA 15:20 · 1KI 9:21

Non-Exist | verb hif

to destroy, to kill, to exterminate, to wipe out = causative action by which humans wipe out (other) humans and objects from existence

2KI 19:11 · 1CH 4:41 · 2CH 20:23 · 2CH 32:14 · ISA 37:11 · JER 25:9 · JER 50:21 · JER 50:26 · JER 51:3 · DAN 11:44

1 ISA 11:15 REB | HOTTP-B RSV NRSV [e] which others (NIV NJPS NJB GNT CEV) translate with "dry up, either as a contextual translation of [e] or on the basis of an emendation (חרב) 2 JOS 6:18 MT תַּחֲרִימוּ NIV NJPS [c] | RSV [d] | HOTTP-B NJB NRSV REB CEV "desire"

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[חָרַם] vb. Hiph. ban, devote, exterminate Hiph. ban, devote

Hoph. be put under the ban, devoted (to death)

devoted, i.e. forfeited, to the temple treasures

base

[חָרַם] vb. slit (nose, lip, ear, etc.), mutilate esp. face—Qal Lv 21:18 (H) ref

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