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# חָרַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2801

**grave** — 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

grave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2801/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָרַת: vb. grave, engrave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2801/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. grave, engrave, only Pt. pass. חָרוּת עַל הַלֻּחֹת Ex 32:16 (E), engraved upon the tablets (by finger of God), but from absence of ‖ in cogn. lang. (Arabic خَرَتَ is perforate, bore, slit) prob. error for חָרוּשׁ (Je 17:1).

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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 32:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.16/#tree)

וְהַ֨לֻּחֹ֔ת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה וְהַמִּכְתָּ֗ב מִכְתַּ֤ב אֱלֹהִים֙ ה֔וּא חָר֖וּת עַל־הַלֻּחֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the tablets \[were\].the.work of.God they and the writing \[was\].the.writing of.God it engraved on the tablets

*JPS 1917:* And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2801.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2801/): 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).