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# חֶרֶס

Biblical Hebrew

**sun** — 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

sun [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e8_5b6_5e1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫רֶס: n.m. sun [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e8_5b6_5e1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ju 14:18 sun (NH id.)—abs. ח׳ Jb 9:7 (‖ כוכבים); c. ה epenth. בְּטֶרֶם יָבֹא הַחַ֫רְסָה Ju 14:18 (cf. לַיִל, לַיְלָה) before the sun could go down (but read perhaps הַחַ֫דְרָה into the (bridal) chamber StaZAW 1884, 253 ff.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 9:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.7/#tree)

הָאֹמֵ֣ר לַ֭חֶרֶס וְלֹ֣א יִזְרָ֑ח וּבְעַ֖ד כּוֹכָבִ֣ים יַחְתֹּֽם׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].speaks to the sun and not it.shines and behind \[the\].stars he.puts.a.seal

*JPS 1917:* Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

[Judges 14:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.14.18/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לוֹ֩ אַנְשֵׁ֨י הָעִ֜יר בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י בְּטֶ֙רֶם֙ יָבֹ֣א הַחַ֔רְסָה מַה־מָּת֣וֹק מִדְּבַ֔שׁ וּמֶ֥ה עַ֖ז מֵאֲרִ֑י וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ם לוּלֵא֙ חֲרַשְׁתֶּ֣ם בְּעֶגְלָתִ֔י לֹ֥א מְצָאתֶ֖ם חִידָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.said to him the.men of the.city on the day (the) seventh before it.went (to) the sun what? \[is\].sweet more than.honey and what? \[is\].strong more than.a.lion and he.said to them if.not you.had.plowed with heifer my not you.found.out riddle my

*JPS 1917:* 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 lion? And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e8_5b6_5e1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b6_5e8_5b6_5e1/): 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).