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Lexicon :: Strong's H2763 - ḥāram

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חָרַם
Transliteration
ḥāram
Pronunciation
khaw-ram'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 744,745

Strong’s Definitions

חָרַם châram, khaw-ram'; a primitive root; to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose:—make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 52x

The KJV translates Strong's H2763 in the following manner: destroy (34x), utterly (10x), devote (2x), accursed (1x), consecrate (1x), forfeited (1x), flat nose (1x), utterly to make away (1x), slay (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 52x
The KJV translates Strong's H2763 in the following manner: destroy (34x), utterly (10x), devote (2x), accursed (1x), consecrate (1x), forfeited (1x), flat nose (1x), utterly to make away (1x), slay (1x).
  1. to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate

    1. (Hiphil)

      1. to prohibit (for common use), ban

      2. to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction

      3. to exterminate, completely destroy

    2. (Hophal)

      1. to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction

      2. to be devoted, be forfeited

      3. to be completely destroyed

  2. to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body)

    1. (Qal) to mutilate

    2. (Hiphil) to divide

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָרַם châram, khaw-ram'; a primitive root; to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose:—make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
STRONGS H2763: Abbreviations
† I. [חָרַם] verb
Hiph. ban, devote, exterminate (MI17 החרמתה of devoting, dedicating a city to Chemosh, in clause with כי explaining massacre of all inhabitants; the altar-hearth of י׳ there was dragged before Chemosh; حَرُمَ be prohibited, forbidden, unlawful, become sacred; II. make, pronounce sacred, inviolable; Ethiopic ሐረመ፡ prohibit from common use, consecrate to God, esteem unlawful; Palmyrene חרםconsacré VogNo 35; Nabataean id., Eutp. 28; Sabean מחרם sanctuary, temple, OsZMG 1865, 176. 252, חרמתן DHMZMG 1875, 594; Aramaic אַחֲרִים, and especially MeroAf  anathematize, excommunicate; see also WeSkizzen iii, 165, DrSm 100 ff., RSSemitic i. 140 (150)) —
Hiph. Perfect הֶהֱרִים Joshua 8:26 + 5 times; הֶחֱרִם Joshua 10:28; 2nd person masculine singular וְהַחֲרַמְתָּ֫ה 1 Samuel 15:18; 1st person singular הֶחֱרַמְתִּי 1 Samuel 15:20; וְהַחֲרַמְתִּ֫י Numbers 21:2; 2nd person feminine singular וְהַחֲרַמְתְּ(י) consecutive Micah 4:13 (so Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Syriac Version Targum RV most; MT 1st person singular), see Ges§ 44, R. 4; plural הֶחֱרִימוּ 1 Samuel 15:9; 2 Chronicles 32:14 etc.; (1 Samuel 15:3 read והחרמתו Greek Version of the LXX We Dr); Imperfect יַחֲרִם Leviticus 27:28; וַיַּחֲרֵם Numbers 21:3; Joshua 10:37; suffix וַיַּחֲרִימָהּ Joshua 10:1; 1st person plural וַנַּחֲרֵם Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 3:6 etc.; Imperative הַחֲרֵם Deuteronomy 13:16; plural הַחֲרִימוּ Jeremiah 51:3; suffix הַחֲרִימוּהָ Jeremiah 50:26; Infinitive absolute הַחֲרֵם Deuteronomy 3:6 + 4 times; construct הַחֲרִים 2 Chronicles 20:23; Daniel 11:44; suffix הַחֲרִימָם Joshua 11:20 + 4 times; — ban, devote (especially religiously, followed by objects hostile to the theocracy [see especially Exodus 22:19 Hoph.]; this involved generally their destruction; when a city was 'devoted' the inhabitants were put to death, the spoil being destroyed or not according to the gravity of the occasion [contrast Joshua 6:17, 21; 1 Samuel 15:3 with Deuteronomy 2:34f. Deuteronomy 3:6, 7], compare MI17 לעשתר כמש החרמתה to Ashtar-Chemosh I devoted it, i.e. the city Nebo); —
1. most often of devoting to destruction cities of Canaanites and other neighbours of Israel, exterminating inhabitants, and destroying or appropriating their possessions:
a. Israel and her leaders subject Numbers 21:2, 3(destruction according to vow), Joshua 6:21 (compare חֵרֶם ליהוה Joshua 6:17; all J); in Joshua 6:18 read תַּחְמְדוּ (for MT תַּחֲרִימוּ, see Di VB); Joshua 8:26 (Greek Version of the LXX, not LXX of Lucian (Lag.), omit verse), Joshua 10:1 (JE), Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 3:6 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 7:2 (twice in verse) (commanded through Moses, compare for underlying thought Deuteronomy 7:4; Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 7:6), Deuteronomy 20:17 (twice in verse) (commanded by י׳), Joshua 2:10; Joshua 10:28, 35, 37, 39, 40 (divine command), Joshua 11:11, 12, 20, 21 (divine command Joshua 11:12; Joshua 11:20; all D), 1 Samuel 15:3, 8, 9 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 15:15, 18, 20 (divine command 1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 15:18; 1 Samuel 15:20, compare 1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Samuel 15:23); quite secondary is simple exterminate 1 Kings 9:21; 1 Chronicles 4:41.
b. secondary meaning destroy, exterminate, also with other nations subject: — 2 Kings 19:11Isaiah 37:11 2 Chronicles 32:14; 20:23; Jeremiah 50:21, 26 (both by divine command), Jeremiah 51:3; Daniel 11:44.
c. God as subject, figurative all nations and their armies Isaiah 34:2; the nations of Western Asia Jeremiah 25:9; the tongue of the Egyptian sea (by drying it up) Isaiah 11:15 (but read perhaps החריב with Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Targum).
d. so also of devoting even Israelites: a city of Israel for worshipping other gods Deuteronomy 13:16; residents of Jabesh-Gilead for not joining in campaign against Benjamin Judges 21:11.
2. devote to י׳ : for sacred uses החרים ליהוה the spoil of the nations Micah 4:13; private possessions, whether a man, animal, or field Leviticus 27:28 (P).
Hoph. Imperfect יָחֳרַם Leviticus 27:29; Ezra 10:8; יָחֳרָ֑ם Exodus 22:19; —
1. be put under the ban, devoted (to death), for worshipping other gods than י׳ Exodus 22:19 (J E; earliest use of word in OT); for some other theocratic offence Leviticus 27:29 (P; see Di).
2. devoted, i.e. forfeited, to the temple treasures Ezra 10:8. — On חרם see especially Di (Kn) Leviticus 27:28; EwAntiq. 75. 78, Dr 1 Samuel 15:33.

† II. [חָרַם] verb slit (nose, lip, ear, etc.), mutilate, especially face (Arabic خَرَمَ perforate, pierce, slit the partition between the nostrils, or the lip, or the lobe of the ear) —
Qal Passive participle עִוֵּר אִישׁ שָׂרוּעַ אוֹ חָרֻם אוֹ פִּסֵחַ a man blind or lame or mutilated in the face (in nose, lip, ear, etc.), or too long in a limb Leviticus 21:18 (H), see Di (Kn).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

22:19; 22:19; 22:19

Leviticus

21:18; 27:28; 27:28; 27:28; 27:29; 27:29

Numbers

21:2; 21:2; 21:3; 21:3

Deuteronomy

2:34; 2:34; 2:34; 3:6; 3:6; 3:6; 3:6; 3:7; 7:2; 7:4; 7:5; 7:6; 13:16; 13:16; 20:17

Joshua

2:10; 6:17; 6:17; 6:18; 6:21; 6:21; 8:26; 8:26; 10:1; 10:1; 10:28; 10:28; 10:35; 10:37; 10:37; 10:39; 10:40; 11:11; 11:12; 11:12; 11:20; 11:20; 11:20; 11:21

Judges

21:11

1 Samuel

15:3; 15:3; 15:3; 15:3; 15:8; 15:9; 15:9; 15:11; 15:15; 15:18; 15:18; 15:18; 15:20; 15:20; 15:20; 15:22; 15:23; 15:33

1 Kings

9:21

2 Kings

19:11

1 Chronicles

4:41

2 Chronicles

20:23; 20:23; 32:14; 32:14

Ezra

10:8; 10:8

Isaiah

11:15; 34:2; 37:11

Jeremiah

25:9; 50:21; 50:26; 50:26; 51:3; 51:3

Daniel

11:44; 11:44

Micah

4:13; 4:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2763 matches the Hebrew חָרַם (ḥāram),
which occurs 52 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:20 -

“And he who sacrifices to [fn]any god, other than to Yahweh alone, shall be [fn]devoted H2763 to destruction H2763.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:18 - ‘For no one who has a defect shall come near: a blind man or a lame man or he who has a [fn]disfigured H2763 face or any deformed limb,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 -

‘Nevertheless, anything which a man [fn]devotes H2763 to Yahweh out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own possession, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything [fn]devoted to destruction is most holy to Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:29 - ‘No [fn]one who may have been [fn]devoted H2763 among men shall be [fn]ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - So Israel made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If You will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote H2763 their cities to destruction H2763.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - Then Yahweh heard the voice of Israel and gave the Canaanites over; so they devoted H2763 them and their cities to destruction H2763. Thus the name of the place was called [fn]Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 - “So we captured all his cities at that time and [fn]devoted H2763 to destruction H2763 [fn]the men, women, and little ones of every city. We left no survivor remaining.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:6 - “And we [fn]devoted H2763 them to destruction H2763, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, [fn]devoting H2763 to destruction H2763 [fn]the men, women, and little ones of every city.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:2 - and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, then you shall devote H2763 them to destruction H2763. You shall cut no covenant with them and show no favor to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, [fn]devoting H2763 it to destruction H2763 and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17 - “But you shall devote H2763 them to destruction H2763, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - “For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the [fn]Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you [fn]devoted H2763 to destruction H2763.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - “But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest as you are devoting H2763 them to destruction H2763, you also take some of the things devoted to destruction and make the camp of Israel devoted to destruction and bring trouble on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - And they devoted H2763 to destruction H2763 everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - For Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted H2763 to destruction H2763 all the inhabitants of Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 -

Now it happened that when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted H2763 it to destruction H2763 (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were [fn]within their land,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:28 -

Now Joshua captured Makkedah on that day and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword; he [fn]devoted H2763 [fn]it to destruction H2763 and every [fn]person who was in it. He left no survivor. Thus he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:35 - And they captured it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword; and every person who was in it, he devoted H2763 to destruction H2763 on that day according to all that he had done to Lachish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:37 - And they captured it and struck it and its king and all its cities and all the persons who were in it with the edge of the sword. He left no survivor remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon. And he devoted H2763 it and every person who was in it to destruction H2763.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:39 - And he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted H2763 every person who was in it to destruction H2763. He left no survivor remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had also done to Libnah and its king.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40 -

Thus Joshua struck all the land—the hill country and the [fn]Negev and the [fn]Shephelah and the slopes—as well as all their kings. He left no survivor remaining, but he devoted H2763 to destruction H2763 all who breathed, just as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:11 - And they struck every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, [fn]devoting H2763 them to destruction H2763; there was no one left who breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - And Joshua captured all the cities of these kings and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and he devoted H2763 them to destruction H2763, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was of Yahweh to strengthen their hearts, to meet Israel in battle in order that he might devote H2763 them to destruction H2763, that they might [fn]receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 -

Then Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab and from all the hill country of Judah and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted H2763 them to destruction H2763 with their cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - Then Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath and devoted H2763 it to destruction H2763. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - “Now this is the thing that you shall do: you shall devote H2763 to destruction H2763 every man and every woman who has known, that is lain with, a man.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote H2763 to destruction H2763 all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - And he seized Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted H2763 to destruction H2763 all the people with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote H2763 them to destruction H2763; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly H2763 destroyed H2763.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; but the rest we have devoted H2763 to destruction H2763.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - and Yahweh sent you on a [fn]mission and said, ‘Go and devote H2763 to destruction H2763 the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 -

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I did [fn]obey the voice of Yahweh and went on the way on which Yahweh sent me and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek and have devoted H2763 the Amalekites to destruction H2763.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:21 - namely, their sons who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to devote H2763 to destruction H2763, from them Solomon raised up forced laborers to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:11 - ‘Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting H2763 them to destruction H2763. So will you be delivered?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - And these, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck down their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and devoted H2763 them to destruction H2763 to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - Indeed, the sons of Ammon and Moab stood against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to devote H2763 them to destruction H2763 and to utterly eradicate them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to bring one another to ruin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:14 - ‘Who was there among all the gods of these nations which my fathers devoted H2763 to destruction H2763, who could deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8 - and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the prince and the elders, all his possessions should be devoted H2763 to destruction H2763 and he himself separated from the assembly of the exiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 -

And Yahweh will devote H2763 to destruction H2763

The tongue of the [fn]Sea of Egypt;

And He will wave His hand over the [fn]River

With His scorching wind;

And He will strike it into seven streams

And make men walk over [fn]dry-shod.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 -

For the indignation of Yahweh is against all the nations,

And His wrath against all their [fn]hosts;

He has [fn]devoted H2763 them to destruction H2763;

He has given them over to slaughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - ‘Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting H2763 them to destruction H2763. So will you be delivered?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [fn]devote H2763 them to destruction H2763 and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:21 -

“Against the land of [fn]Merathaim, go up against it,

And against the inhabitants of [fn]Pekod.

Put them to the sword and [fn]devote H2763 them to destruction H2763,” declares Yahweh,

“And do according to all that I have commanded you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26 -

Come to her from the [fn]farthest border;

Open up her barns;

Pile her up like heaps,

And [fn]devote H2763 her to destruction H2763;

Let nothing of her remain.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 -

[fn]Let not [fn]him who [fn]bends his bow [fn]bend it,

[fn]Nor let him rise up in his scale-armor;

So do not spare her young men;

Devote H2763 all her army to H2763 destruction H2763.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - “But reports from the East and from the North will dismay him, and he will go forth with great wrath to destroy and [fn]devote H2763 many to destruction H2763.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:13 -

“Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,

For your horn I will make iron,

And your hoofs I will make bronze,

That you may pulverize many peoples,

That you may devote H2763 to Yahweh their greedy gain unto destruction H2763

And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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