Strong's Concordance cheresh: cunning Original Word: חֶ֫רֶשׁPart of Speech: noun masculine; adverb; noun masculine Transliteration: cheresh Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-resh) Short Definition: cunning Brown-Driver-Briggs I. חֶ֫רֶשׁ noun [masculine] as adverb silently, secretly — ׳מְרַגְּלִים ח Joshua 2:1 (JE) exploring secretly. III. חרשׁ (√ of following; meaning unknown). II. חֶ֫רֶשׁ noun [masculine] magic art, or perhaps magic drug (Aramaic Strong's Exhaustive Concordance cunning, secretly From charash; magical craft; also silence -- cunning, secretly. see HEBREW charash Forms and Transliterations הַחֲרָשִֽׁים׃ החרשים׃ חֶ֣רֶשׁ חרש Cheresh ha·ḥă·rā·šîm hacharaShim haḥărāšîm ḥe·reš ḥerešLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 27912 Occurrences ḥe·reš — 1 Occ. ha·ḥă·rā·šîm — 1 Occ. Joshua 2:1 HEB: אֲנָשִׁ֤ים מְרַגְּלִים֙ חֶ֣רֶשׁ לֵאמֹ֔ר לְכ֛וּ NAS: as spies secretly from Shittim, KJV: men to spy secretly, saying, Go INT: men spies secretly saying Go Nehemiah 11:35 |
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practise magic, חָרָשׁ, 
magician, 
incantation, magic art, preparation of magic potion, so Ethiopic 
one using incantations; 
incantation, magic; compare perhaps Arabic 
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a medicinal broth given to women in childbed; חֶרֶשׁ perhaps magical drug, see RSJPh xiv. 1885, 125) — only חֲכַם חֲרָשִׁים