To singe
חֲרַךְStrong’s H2761charakh (cha-rakh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Charakh is the Aramaic word usually translated “it was singed”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.”
Meaning
- (Ithpael) to singe
How it's translated
- it was singed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
חֲרַךְ charakh · to singe
(Ithpael) to singe Aramaic of cha.rar (חָרַר "to scorch" H2787)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “singe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SINGE, verb transitive
sinj. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of a thing as the nap of cloth, or the hair of the skin; as, to singe off the beard. Thus riding on his curls, he seem'd to pass A rolling fire along, and singe the grass.
All definitions and other forms of “singe”
SINGE, noun
A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.