# חֵרֶם (cherem)

Israeli respelling: che-rem. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2764. 31 Old Testament occurrences.

physical (as shutting in) a net (either literally or figuratively); usually a doomed object; abstractly extermination

King James renderings: (ac-) curse(-d, -d thing), dedicated thing, things which should have been utterly destroyed, (appointed to) utter destruction, devoted (thing), net.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/cherem-h2764

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 27:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/21) — But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest…
- [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 18:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/14) — Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
- [Deuteronomy 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/26) — Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou s…
- [Deuteronomy 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/17) — And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mer…
- [Joshua 6:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/17) — And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with…
- [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 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/1) — But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of…
- [Joshua 7:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/11) — Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and…
- [Joshua 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/12) — Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accur…
- [Joshua 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/13) — Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing…
- [Joshua 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/15) — And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgres…
- [Joshua 22:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/20) — Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man peri…
- [1 Samuel 15:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/21) — But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the L…
- [1 Kings 20:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/42) — And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore…
- [1 Chronicles 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/2/7) — And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/26) — And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from h…
- [Isaiah 34:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/5) — For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
- [Isaiah 43:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/28) — Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
- [Ezekiel 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/5) — It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoi…
- [Ezekiel 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/14) — And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have sp…
- [Ezekiel 32:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/3) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
- [Ezekiel 44:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/29) — They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
- [Ezekiel 47:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/10) — And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets;…
- [Micah 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/2) — The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his bro…
- [Habakkuk 1:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/15) — They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
- [Habakkuk 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/16) — Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
- [Habakkuk 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/17) — Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
- [Zechariah 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/11) — And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
- [Malachi 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/4/6) — And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth…