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חֶ֫רֶטStrong’s H2747

cheret (che-ret)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Cheret is the Hebrew word usually translated “tool” and “stylus of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 32:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. An engraving tool, stylus, chisel, graving toolgraving tool · stylus
How it's translated
  • with tool 1
  • with a stylus of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 1
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

חֶ֫רֶט cheret · stylus

1) an engraving tool, stylus, chisel, graving tool 1a) graving tool 1b) stylus

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.