STRONGS NUMBER H2759


Word Summary
charishi: perhaps sultry
Original Word: חֲרִישִׁי
Transliteration: charishi
Phonetic Spelling: (khar-ee-shee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: perhaps sultry
Meaning: perhaps sultry
Strong's Concordance
vehement

From charash in the sense of silence; quiet, i.e. Sultry (as feminine noun, the sirocco or hot east wind) -- vehement.

see HEBREW charash

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2759. charishi

[חֲרִישִׁי‎] adjective meaning wholly dubious; only חֲרִישְׁית קָדִים רוּחַJonah 4:8; a silent east wind is not suitable in context; still = sultry is mere conjecture; Hi autumnal (√ I. חרשׁ‎); St proposes חרישׂית‎ = חריסית‎, from חֶרֶסsun (or √ whence חֶרֶס‎ comes) hot east wind; We makes no attempt to explain.