Limitless Word
חָרַשׁchârash/khaw-rash'/
HebrewH279074 occurrences (KJV)

to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)

KJV renders it: [idiom] altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.

Where it appears(showing the first 66 of 74)

  • Gen 24:21The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
  • Gen 34:5Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.
  • Exod 14:14Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
  • Num 30:4and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
  • Num 30:7and her husband hears it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
  • Num 30:11and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn’t disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.
  • Num 30:14But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her. He has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
  • Deut 22:10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
  • Judg 14:18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
  • Judg 16:2The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light, then we will kill him.”
  • Judg 18:19They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
  • 1 Sam 7:8The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
  • 1 Sam 8:12He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
  • 1 Sam 10:27But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
  • 1 Sam 23:9David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
  • 2 Sam 13:20Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.
  • 2 Sam 19:10Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”
  • 1 Kgs 7:14He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
  • 1 Kgs 19:19So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.
  • 2 Kgs 18:36But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
  • Neh 5:8I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
  • Esth 4:14For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
  • Esth 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
  • Job 1:14that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
  • Job 4:8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
  • Job 6:24“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
  • Job 11:3Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
  • Job 13:5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
  • Job 13:13“Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
  • Job 13:19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
  • Job 33:31Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.
  • Job 33:33If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”
  • Job 41:12“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
  • Ps 28:1By David. To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Ps 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
  • Ps 35:22You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
  • Ps 39:12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
  • Ps 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
  • Ps 83:1A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
  • Ps 109:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
  • Ps 129:3The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
  • Prov 3:29Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.
  • Prov 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
  • Prov 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
  • Prov 11:12One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
  • Prov 12:20Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
  • Prov 14:22Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
  • Prov 17:28Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
  • Prov 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
  • Isa 28:24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
  • Isa 36:21But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
  • Isa 41:1“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
  • Isa 42:14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
  • Jer 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can’t hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
  • Jer 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.
  • Jer 26:18“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’
  • Jer 38:27Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
  • Hos 10:11Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
  • Hos 10:13You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
  • Amos 6:12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
  • Amos 9:13“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
  • Mic 3:12Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
  • Mic 7:16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
  • Hab 1:13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
  • Zeph 3:17Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.