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# חֶרֶס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2775

**an eruptive disease** — 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

an eruptive disease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2775/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫רֶס³: itch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2775/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] an eruptive disease, itch (Aramaic חַרְסָא, ܚܶܪܣܳܐ; also ܚܰܪܘܽܣ rough, etc.)—וּבֶחָ֑רֶס Dt 28:27 (‖ עפלים Kt, גָּרָב),—i, ii. חֶרֶס v. sub חרס.

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 28:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.27/#tree)

יַכְּכָ֨ה יְהוָ֜ה בִּשְׁחִ֤ין מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ וּבַטְּחֹרִ֔ים וּבַגָּרָ֖ב וּבֶחָ֑רֶס אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תוּכַ֖ל לְהֵרָפֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* he will.strike.you Yahweh with the.boil\[s\] of.Egypt and with (the) tumors and with.(the) festering rash and with (the) scabies which not you.will.be.able to be.healed

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2775.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2775/): 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).