Heres
חֶ֫רֶסStrong’s H2776cheres (che-res)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheres is the Hebrew word usually translated “heres”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.”
Meaning
- § Heres = "the sun"
How it's translated
- heres 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫רֶס cheres · Heres
§ Heres = "the sun" a mountain inhabited by Amorites in Moab; the place where Gideon turned back from chasing the Midianites
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “her” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HER, pronoun
ced hur, an adjective, or pronominal adjective of the third person. [Latin suus.]
- Belonging to a female; as her face; her head.
- It is used before neuter nouns in personification.“Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace” Proverbs 3:17“She gave also to her husband with her and he did eat” Genesis 3:6
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.