Silently
חֶ֫רֶשׁStrong’s H2791cheresh (che-resh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheresh is the Hebrew word usually translated “secretly” and “magic arts”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.”
Meaning
- Adv
- Magic art, magician
How it's translated
- secretly 1
- magic arts 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֶ֫רֶשׁ cheresh · silently
adv silently, secretly
חֶ֫רֶשׁ cheresh · craftily
magic art, magician
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “silently” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SI'LENTLY, adverb
- Without speech or words.
- without noise; as, to march silently
- Without mention.
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.