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Sharp

חָרוּץStrong’s H2742

charuts (cha-ruts)

Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Charuts is the Hebrew word usually translated “diligent”, “more than gold” and “decision”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.

“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.”
Daniel 9:25 KJV
Meaning
  1. Adj
  2. Strict decision, decision
  3. Trench, moat, ditch
  4. Gold (poetical)
How it's translated
  • diligent 4
  • more than gold 3
  • decision 2
  • a mutilation 1
  • a threshing sledge 1
  • gold 1
  • and more than gold 1
  • a diligent 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Proverbs 9
  • Isaiah 2
  • Leviticus 1
  • Job 1
  • Psalms 1
  • Daniel 1

9 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 18 verses, by book
Leviticus 1
22:22
Job 1
41:30
Psalms 1
68:13
Isaiah 2
28:2741:15
Daniel 1
9:25
Joel 1
3:14
Amos 1
1:3
Zechariah 1
9:3
Hebrew dictionary

חָרוּץ charuts · sharp

adj sharp-pointed, sharp, diligent

חָרוּץ charuts · decision

strict decision, decision

חָרוּץ charuts · trench

trench, moat, ditch

חָרוּץ charuts · gold

gold (poetical)

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

  1. Having a very thin edge or a fine point; keen; acute; not blunt.
  2. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse; as, a hills terminates in a sharp peak, or a sharp ridge.
  3. Forming an acute or too small angle at the ridge; as a sharp roof.
  4. Acute of mind; quick to discern or distinguish; penetrating; ready at invention; witty; ingenious.
All definitions and other forms of “sharp”
  1. Being of quick or nice perception; applied to the senses or organs of perception; as a sharp eye; sharp sight.
  2. Affecting the organs of taste like fine points; piercing; penetrating; shrill; as sharp vinegar; sharp tasted citrons.
  3. 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.
  4. Severe; harsh; biting; sarcastic; as sharp words; sharp rebuke.
  5. Severely rigid; quick or severe in punishing; cruel.
  6. Eager for food; keen; as a sharp appetite.
  7. Eager in pursuit; deen in quest,
  8. Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; as a sharp contest.
  9. Keen; severe; pungent; as sharp pain.
  10. Very painful or distressing; as sharp tribulation; a sharp fit of the gout.
  11. Very attentive or vigilant.
  12. Making nice calculations of profit; or close and exact in making bargains or demanding dues.
  13. Biting; pinching; piercing; as sharp air; sharp wind or weather.
  14. Subtil; nice; witty; acute; used of things; as a sharp discourse.
  15. Among workmen, hard; as sharp sand.
  16. Emanciated; lean; thin; as a sharp visage.

SH'ARP, noun

  1. In music, an acute sound.
  2. A note artificially raised a semitone; or,
  3. The character which directs the note to be thus elevated; opposed to a flat, which depresses a note a semitone.
  4. A pointed weapon. [Not in use.]

SH'ARP, verb transitive

  1. To make keen or acute.
  2. To render quick.
  3. 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.