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STRONGS NUMBER H2716

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

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2716. chere

[חֶרֶא‎, or חֲרִי‎] noun [masculine] dung (Late Hebrew חרא‎ (י‎ ), id.; Aramaic id.; Mandean חרא‎ (on this and cognate languages in General see NöM 56); Arabic id., whence verb of act, and noun of place; Amharic (DiLex. Aeth. 88)) — plural suffix חַרְאֵיהֶם‎ Isaiah 36:12 Kt (Qr צוֺאָתָם‎); "" 2 Kings 18:27 has חֲרִיהֶם‎ (see singular חרי‎ 6:25; Qr as above); יוֺנִים חֲרִי‎ dove's dung 6:25 Kt (Qr דִּבִיוֺנִים‎); see, further, GeiUrschrift, 409.





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