Sun
חֶ֫רֶסStrong’s H2775cheres (che-res)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheres is the Hebrew word usually translated “scabies” and “sun”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.”
Meaning
- Sun
- Itch, an eruptive disease
How it's translated
- and with scabies 1
- the sun 1
- to the sun 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 14:18And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
- Job 9:7Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫רֶס cheres · sun
sun
חֶ֫רֶס cheres · itch
itch, an eruptive disease
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sun” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUN, noun
- The splendid orb or luminary which, being in or near the center of our system of worlds, gives light and heat to all the planets. Psalms 136:8
- In popular usage, a sunny place; a place where the beams of the sun fall; as, to stand in the sun that is, to stand where the direct rays of the sun fall.
- Any thing eminently splendid or luminous; that which is the chief source of light or honor.
- In Scripture, Christ is called the sun of righteousness, as the source of light, animation and comfort to his disciples.
All definitions and other forms of “sun”
- The luminary or orb which constitutes the center of any system of worlds.“There is no new thing under the sun” Ecclesiastes 1:9
SUN, verb transitive
To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the light of the sun; to insolate; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
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.