STRONGS NUMBER H2747


Word Summary
cheret: engraving tool, stylus
Original Word: חֶרֶט
Transliteration: cheret
Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-ret)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: engraving tool, stylus
Meaning: a chisel, graver, a style for, writing
Strong's Concordance
graving tool, pen

From a primitive root meaning to engrave; a chisel or graver; also a style for writing -- graving tool, pen.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2747. cheret

חֶ֫רֶטnoun [masculine] graving-tool, stylus

1 graving-tool, with which Aaron fashioned (וַיָּצַר‎) the molten calf Exodus 32:4 (E).

2 stylus, for writing on tablet (גִּלָּיוֺן‎): אֱנוֺשׁ בְּחֶרֶט עָלָיו כְּתֹבIsaiah 8:1 write on it with a man's (i.e. an ordinary) stylus = in common characters, intelligible to all (see BenzArchaeology 290).