Sharp
חַדStrong’s H2299chad
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chad is the Hebrew word usually translated “sharp”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.”
Meaning
- Sharp
How it's translated
- sharp 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 5:4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
- Isaiah 49:2And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
- Ezekiel 5:1And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Hebrew dictionary
חַד chad · sharp
sharp
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sharp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SH'ARP, adjective
- Having a very thin edge or a fine point; keen; acute; not blunt.
- Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse; as, a hills terminates in a sharp peak, or a sharp ridge.
- Forming an acute or too small angle at the ridge; as a sharp roof.
- Acute of mind; quick to discern or distinguish; penetrating; ready at invention; witty; ingenious.
All definitions and other forms of “sharp”
- Being of quick or nice perception; applied to the senses or organs of perception; as a sharp eye; sharp sight.
- Affecting the organs of taste like fine points; piercing; penetrating; shrill; as sharp vinegar; sharp tasted citrons.
- Affecting the organs of hearing like sharp points; poercing; penetrating; shrill; as a sharp sound or voice; a sharp not or tone; opposed to a flat note or sound.
- Severe; harsh; biting; sarcastic; as sharp words; sharp rebuke.
- Severely rigid; quick or severe in punishing; cruel.
- Eager for food; keen; as a sharp appetite.
- Eager in pursuit; deen in quest,
- Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; as a sharp contest.
- Keen; severe; pungent; as sharp pain.
- Very painful or distressing; as sharp tribulation; a sharp fit of the gout.
- Very attentive or vigilant.
- Making nice calculations of profit; or close and exact in making bargains or demanding dues.
- Biting; pinching; piercing; as sharp air; sharp wind or weather.
- Subtil; nice; witty; acute; used of things; as a sharp discourse.
- Among workmen, hard; as sharp sand.
- Emanciated; lean; thin; as a sharp visage.
SH'ARP, noun
- In music, an acute sound.
- A note artificially raised a semitone; or,
- The character which directs the note to be thus elevated; opposed to a flat, which depresses a note a semitone.
- A pointed weapon. [Not in use.]
SH'ARP, verb transitive
- To make keen or acute.
- To render quick.
- To mark with a sharp in musical composition; or to raise a not a semitone.
SH'ARP, verb intransitive
To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.