Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2716 - חֶרֶא chere

Original Word:	חֶרֶא
Transliteration:	chere
Phonetic Spelling:	(kheh'-reh)
Definition:	dung
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

excrement, dung

From an unused (and vulgar) root probably meaning to evacuate the bowels: excrement; -dung. Also chariy {khar-ee'}.

Englishman's Concordance

1) dung, excrement
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused (and vulgar) root probably meaning to evacuate the bowels
Same Word by TWOT Number: 730a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[חֶרֶא, or חֲרִי] noun [masculine]dung (Late Hebrew חרא (י_), id.; Aramaic

id.; Mandean חרא (on this and cognate languages in General see Nö^{M 56}); Arabic

id., whence verb

of act, and noun

of place; Amharic

(Di^{Lex. Aeth. 88})) — plural suffix חַרְאֵיהֶםIsaiah 36:12 Kt (Qr צוֺאָתָם); "" 2 Kings 18:27 has חֲרִיהֶם (see singular חרי2 Kings 6:25; Qr as above); חֲרִי יוֺנִיםdove's dung2 Kings 6:25 Kt (Qr דִּבִיוֺנִים); see, further, Gei^{Urschrift, 409}.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2716. חַרְאֵי (chere) — 1 Occurrence
Isaiah 36:12
HEB:[חַרְאֵיהֶם כ] (צֹואָתָ֗ם ק) וְלִשְׁתּ֛וֹת
NAS: [doomed] to eat their own dung and drink
KJV: that they may eat their own dung, and drink
INT: the wall eat dung and drink waste

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