Strong's Hebrew · H2742

חֲרוּץ

chărûwts · khaw-roots'

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

Definition

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

Derivation

or חָרֻץ; passive participle of H2782 (חָרַץ);

Appears 19 times in Scripture

Leviticus 22:22

You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.

Psalms 68:13

Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”

Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

Job 41:30

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Amos 1:3

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.

Proverbs 13:4

The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

Proverbs 8:19

My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.

Proverbs 3:14

for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.

Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

Proverbs 10:4

Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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