Charm
לַ֫חַשׁStrong’s H3908lachash (la-chash)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lachash is the Hebrew word usually translated “charming”, “amulets” and “whisper”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.”
Meaning
- Whispering, charmingserpent-charming · charms, amulets (worn by women) · whisper (of prayer)
How it's translated
- charming 2
- and the amulets 1
- a whisper 1
- a charm 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 3:3The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
- Isaiah 3:20The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
- Isaiah 26:16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
לַ֫חַשׁ lachash · charm
1) whispering, charming 1a) serpent-charming 1b) charms, amulets (worn by women) 1c) whisper (of prayer)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “charm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHARM, noun
- Words, characters or other things imagined to possess some occult or unintelligible power; hence, a magic power or spell, by which with the supposed assistance of the devil, witches and sorcerers have been supposed to do wonderful things.
- That which has power to subdue opposition, and gain the affections; that which can please irresistible; that which delights and attracts the heart; generally in the plural.
All definitions and other forms of “charm”
CHARM, verb transitive
- To subdue or control by incantation or secret influence.“I will send serpents among you - which will not be charmed” Jeremiah 8:17
- To subdue by secret power, especially by that which pleases and delights the mind; to allay, or appease.
- To give exquisite pleasure to the mind or senses; to delight.
- To fortify with charms against evil.
- To make powerful by charms.
- To summon by incantation.
- To temper agreeably.
CHARM, verb intransitive
To sound harmonically.
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.