Strong’s H2742 · Hebrew
חֲרוּץ
chărûwts · khaw-roots'
Origin or חָרֻץ; passive participle of חָרַץ (H2782);
Meaning properly, incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager
In the King James Version decision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.
In 17 verses of the King James Version
- Job 41:30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
- Psalms 68:13Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
- Proverbs 3:14For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
- Proverbs 8:10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
- Proverbs 8:19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
- Proverbs 10:4He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
- Proverbs 12:24The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
- Proverbs 12:27The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
- Proverbs 13:4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
- Proverbs 16:16How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
- Proverbs 21:5The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
- Isaiah 28:27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
- Isaiah 41:15Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
- Daniel 9:25Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
- Joel 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
- Amos 1:3Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
- Zechariah 9:3And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.