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# חָרַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2760

**set in motion** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

set in motion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2760/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָרַךְ: vb. set in motion, start [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2760/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. set in motion, start (cf. Arabic حَرُكَ move, be agitated, ii. set in motion)—only Impf. 3 ms. לֹא־יַחֲרֹךְ רְמִיָּה צֵידוֹ Pr 12:27 slackness (i.e. a slack or slothful man) doth not start its game De RVm, cf. Now (\> Be Ew after Jewish trad., doth not roast, Aramaic חֲרַךְ, ܚܪܰܟ scorch, parch).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he roasts (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.27/#tree)

לֹא־יַחֲרֹ֣ךְ רְמִיָּ֣ה צֵיד֑וֹ וְהוֹן־אָדָ֖ם יָקָ֣ר חָרֽוּץ׃

*Word for word:* not he.roasts slackness game his.hunted and.\[the\] wealth of.a.person precious a.diligent.\[person\]

*JPS 1917:* The slothful man shall not hunt his prey; but the precious substance of men is to be diligent.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2760.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2760/): 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).