Parched
חָרֵרStrong’s H2788charer (cha-rer)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Charer is the Hebrew word usually translated “parched places”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.”
Meaning
- Dry regions, parched place
How it's translated
- parched places 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חָרֵר charer · parched
dry regions, parched place
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “parched” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ARCHED, participle passive
Scorched; dried to extremity.
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.