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# חֶרֶט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2747

**graving-tool** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

graving-tool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2747/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫רֶט: graving-tool, stylus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2747/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] graving-tool, stylus— graving-tool, with which Aaron fashioned (וַיָּצַר) the molten calf Ex 32:4 (E). stylus, for writing on tablet (גִּלָּיוֹן): כְּתֹב עָלָיו בְּחֶרֶט אֱנוֹשׁ Is 8:1 write on it with a man’s (i.e. an ordinary) stylus = in common characters, intelligible to all (v. BenzArch. 290).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a stylus (1); tool (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 32:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.4/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח מִיָּדָ֗ם וַיָּ֤צַר אֹתוֹ֙ בַּחֶ֔רֶט וַֽיַּעֲשֵׂ֖הוּ עֵ֣גֶל מַסֵּכָ֑ה וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אֵ֤לֶּה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶעֱל֖וּךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took.\[them\] from hand their and he.fashioned it with (the) tool and he made.it a.calf of.molten.metal and they.said these gods \[are\].your O.Israel who they brought.you.up from the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said: 'This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

[Isaiah 8:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.1/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י קַח־לְךָ֖ גִּלָּי֣וֹן גָּד֑וֹל וּכְתֹ֤ב עָלָיו֙ בְּחֶ֣רֶט אֱנ֔וֹשׁ לְמַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to me take (for yourself a.tablet large and write on it with a.stylus of.a.person (to) Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto me: 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2747.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2747/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).