Hereth
חֶרֶתStrong’s H2802cheret (che-ret)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Cheret is the Hebrew word usually translated “hereth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.”
Meaning
- § Hareth = "forest"
How it's translated
- hereth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֶרֶת cheret · Hereth
§ Hareth = "forest" a forest whose site is now unknown
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.