Purse
חָרִיטStrong’s H2754charit (cha-rit)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charit is the Hebrew word usually translated “bags” and “purses”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.”
Meaning
- Bag, purse
How it's translated
- bags 1
- and the purses 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חָרִיט charit · purse
bag, purse
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “purse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PURSE, noun
purs. [Latin byrsa, an ox hide; Gr. id.]
- A small bag in which money is contained or carried in the pocket.
- A sum of money offered as the prize of winning in a horse race.
- In turkey, a sum of money, about f50 sterling, or $222.
- The public coffers; the treasury; as, to exhaust a nation's purse or the public purse
All definitions and other forms of “purse”
PURSE, verb transitive
To put in a purse
- To contract into folds or wrinkles.
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.