# חָרַשׁ (charash)

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

Strong’s H2790. 65 Old Testament occurrences.

to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)

King James renderings: [idiom] altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/charash-h2790

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/21) — And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
- [Genesis 34:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/5) — And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they…
- [Exodus 14:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/14) — The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
- [Numbers 30:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/30/4) — And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows…
- [Numbers 30:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/30/7) — And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bou…
- [Numbers 30:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/30/11) — And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bo…
- [Numbers 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/30/14) — But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon he…
- [Deuteronomy 22:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/22/10) — Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
- [Judges 14:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/14/18) — And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a…
- [Judges 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/2) — And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the c…
- [Judges 18:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/19) — And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for…
- [1 Samuel 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/7/8) — And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Phili…
- [1 Samuel 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/8/12) — And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, a…
- [1 Samuel 10:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/27) — But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
- [1 Samuel 23:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/9) — And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
- [2 Samuel 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/20) — And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard…
- [2 Samuel 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/10) — And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
- [1 Kings 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/19) — So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: a…
- [2 Kings 18:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/36) — But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
- [Nehemiah 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/8) — And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell you…
- [Esther 4:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/4/14) — For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; b…
- [Esther 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/7/4) — For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had hel…
- [Job 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/14) — And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
- [Job 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/8) — Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
- [Job 6:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/24) — Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
- [Job 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/3) — Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- [Job 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/5) — O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
- [Job 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/13) — Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
- [Job 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/19) — Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
- [Job 33:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/31) — Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
- [Job 33:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/33) — If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
- [Job 41:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/12) — I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
- [Psalms 28:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/28/1) — Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- [Psalms 32:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/32/3) — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
- [Psalms 35:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/22) — This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
- [Psalms 39:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/12) — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my…
- [Psalms 50:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/50/3) — Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
- [Psalms 50:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/50/21) — These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and…
- [Psalms 83:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/83/1) — Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
- [Psalms 109:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/1) — Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
- [Psalms 129:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/129/3) — The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- [Proverbs 3:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/29) — Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
- [Proverbs 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/14) — Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
- [Proverbs 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/18) — An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
- [Proverbs 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/12) — He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
- [Proverbs 12:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/20) — Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
- [Proverbs 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/22) — Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
- [Proverbs 17:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/28) — Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- [Proverbs 20:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/4) — The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- [Isaiah 28:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/24) — Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
- [Isaiah 36:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/36/21) — But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
- [Isaiah 41:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/1) — Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near toget…
- [Isaiah 42:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/14) — I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devou…
- [Jeremiah 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/19) — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my so…
- [Jeremiah 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/1) — The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the h…
- [Jeremiah 26:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/18) — Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of…
- [Jeremiah 38:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/27) — Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they…
- [Hosea 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/11) — And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to…
- [Hosea 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/13) — Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude…
- [Amos 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/12) — Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into h…
- [Amos 9:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/13) — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the…
- [Micah 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/12) — Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places…
- [Micah 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/16) — The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
- [Habakkuk 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/13) — Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and h…
- [Zephaniah 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/17) — The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy ov…