# חָרַם (charam)

Israeli respelling: cha-ram. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2763. 48 Old Testament occurrences.

to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose

King James renderings: make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/charam-h2763

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 22:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/20) — He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
- [Leviticus 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/21/18) — For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing supe…
- [Leviticus 27:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/28) — Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his…
- [Leviticus 27:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/29) — None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
- [Numbers 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/2) — And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cit…
- [Numbers 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/3) — And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he ca…
- [Deuteronomy 2:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/34) — And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to…
- [Deuteronomy 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/6) — And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
- [Deuteronomy 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/2) — And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with…
- [Deuteronomy 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/15) — Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the ca…
- [Deuteronomy 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/20/17) — But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebus…
- [Joshua 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/10) — For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of…
- [Joshua 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/18) — And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make…
- [Joshua 6:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/21) — And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sw…
- [Joshua 8:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/26) — For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
- [Joshua 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/1) — Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to J…
- [Joshua 10:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/28) — And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the so…
- [Joshua 10:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/35) — And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, a…
- [Joshua 10:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/37) — And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were th…
- [Joshua 10:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/39) — And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all…
- [Joshua 10:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/40) — So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none rema…
- [Joshua 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/11) — And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and…
- [Joshua 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/12) — And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly de…
- [Joshua 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/20) — For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that…
- [Joshua 11:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/21) — And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of…
- [Judges 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/17) — And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the…
- [Judges 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/11) — And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
- [1 Samuel 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/3) — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox a…
- [1 Samuel 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/8) — And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
- [1 Samuel 15:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/9) — But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good,…
- [1 Samuel 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/15) — And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto t…
- [1 Samuel 15:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/18) — And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be cons…
- [1 Samuel 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/20) — And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag th…
- [1 Kings 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/21) — Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Sol…
- [2 Kings 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/11) — Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
- [1 Chronicles 4:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/4/41) — And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and…
- [2 Chronicles 20:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/23) — For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made…
- [2 Chronicles 32:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/32/14) — Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that y…
- [Ezra 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/8) — And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be fo…
- [Isaiah 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/15) — And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and sha…
- [Isaiah 34:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/2) — For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered…
- [Isaiah 37:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/11) — Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
- [Jeremiah 25:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/9) — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will br…
- [Jeremiah 50:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/21) — Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the…
- [Jeremiah 50:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/26) — Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
- [Jeremiah 51:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/3) — Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young…
- [Daniel 11:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/44) — But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to…
- [Micah 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/4/13) — Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many…