Collection
חַשְׁרָהStrong’s H2841chashrah (chash-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chashrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sieve of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.”
Meaning
- Collection, mass, an accumulation of water
How it's translated
- a sieve of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חַשְׁרָה chashrah · collection
collection, mass, an accumulation of water
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “collection” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COLLECTION, noun
- The act of gathering, or assembling.
- The body formed by gathering; an assemblage, or assembly; a crowd; as a collection of men.
- A contribution; a sum collected for a charitable purpose.“Now concerning the collection for the saints” 1 Corinthians 16:1
- A gathering, as of matter in an abscess.
All definitions
- The act of deducing consequences; reasoning; inference.
- A corollary; a consectary; a deduction from premises; consequence.
- A book compiled from other books, by the putting together of parts; a compilation; as a collection of essays or sermons.
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.