Cherith=“cutting” 1) the brook where Elijah was hidden during a drought; east of Jordan Part of Speech: noun proper A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3772
Brown-Driver-Briggs
כְּרִיתproper name, of a location and כְּרִיתוּת see below כרת.
כרך (√ of following; compare Aramaic כְּרַךְenwrap, surround, כְּרִיכָא, bundle, כַּרְכָּא, city (+ many other derivatives ); כְּרִיכָא, Late Hebrew כֶּרֶךְ, scroll, etc.)
כְּרִיתproper namethe brook where Eliajah was hidden1 Kings 17:3,5, identify. dubious; accusative RobBR ii. P. 288 wadyel-Kelt, near Jericho; accusative BuhlHandw 12 Wady`Ajlun, east of Jordan, yet see BuhlG. 121.
1 Kings 17:3 HEB:וְנִסְתַּרְתָּ֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־ NAS: yourself by the brook Cherith, which KJV: thyself by the brook Cherith, that [is] before INT: and hide the brook Cherith which that
1 Kings 17:5 HEB:וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ בְּנַ֣חַל כְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־ NAS: by the brook Cherith, which KJV: by the brook Cherith, that [is] before INT: and lived the brook Cherith which that