Carving
חֲרֹ֫שֶׁתStrong’s H2799charoshet (cha-ro-shet)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charoshet is the Hebrew word usually translated “carving of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.”
Meaning
- Carving, skilful working
How it's translated
- and in carving of 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֲרֹ֫שֶׁת charoshet · carving
carving, skilful working
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “carving” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CARVING, participle present
tense Cutting, dividing, as meat; cutting in stone, wood or metal; apportioning; distributing.
All definitions and other forms of “carving”
CARVING, noun
The act of cutting, as meat; the act or art of cutting figures in wood or stone; sculpture; figures carved.
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.