Lexical Definition

‎חֲרוּץ‎ chărûwts (khaw-roots') sharp ^H:A
or חָרֻץ châruts (khaw-roots'); passive participle of ‎חָרַץ‎

decision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.

• properly, incised or (active) incisive
• hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth)
• (figuratively) determination
• also eager

adj
1) sharp-pointed, sharp, diligent
n m
2) strict decision, decision
3) trench, moat, ditch
4) gold (poetical)

See Greek: ἀλοάω · δίκη · ἐκλεκτός · σκληρότης · τεῖχος · χρυσίον · χρυσός

Extended Information

• gold (poetical)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎חָרוּץ‎ adjective sharp, diligent (on this and following see Ba^{NB 173}) — ‎חָרוּץ‎ Isa 28:27 + 11 t.; plural ‎חֲרוּצִים‎ Prov 10:4; Prov 12:24 ‎חֲרֻצִים‎ Prov 13:4 ‎חֲרֻצוֺת‎ Amos 1:3 —

1. sharp: of threshing instrument ‎חָדָשׁ‎ ‎׳‎‎מוֺרָג ח‎ Isa 41:15 without ‎׳‎‎מ‎, as substantive, Isa 28:27 (where ‎יוּדַשׁ‎); ‎הַבַּרְזֶל‎ ‎׳‎‎ח‎ Amos 1:3; Job 41:22* (figurative of crocodile).

2. figurative diligent: as substantive Prov 21:5 opposed to ‎רְמִיָּךְ‎ Prov 10:4; Prov 12:24; Prov 12:27 opposed to ‎עָצֵּל‎ Prov 13:4. — Dan 9:25 see IV. ‎חרוץ‎.

II. ‎חָרוּץ‎ noun [masculine] strict decision, only ‎עֵמֶק‎ ‎הֶחָרוּץ‎ Joel Dan 4:14* (twice in verse) valley of strict decision (see Ba^l.c.).

see ‎חָרוּץ‎ noun masculine^{Prov 8:10} gold, in poetry (Phoenician ‎חרץ‎, see Dr^{Sm xxviii}; Assyrian —urâƒu) — ‎חָרוּץ‎ Ps 68:14* + 5 t.; gold, always || ‎כֶּסֶף‎; Zech 9:3, of dove's wings Ps 68:14* ‎׳‎‎בִּירַקְרַק ח‎; elsewhere in comparison with value of wisdom, etc. Prov 3:14; Prov 8:10 (‎נִבְחָר‎ ‎׳‎‎ח‎) vProv 8:19; Prov 16:16.

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