Strong's Hebrew · H2763
חָרַם
châram · khaw-ram'
make accursed, consecrate, (utterly) destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose, utterly (slay, make away).
Definition
to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 52 times in Scripture
“So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.””
“We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.”
“At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.”
“and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.”
“No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.”
“Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.”
“If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.”
“No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;”
“And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.”
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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).