Strong's Hebrew · H2790
חָרַשׁ
chârash · khaw-rash'
[idiom] altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Definition
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 72 times in Scripture
“The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.””
“Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.”
“and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.”
“But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.”
“Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.”
“Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.”
“and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.”
“and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.”
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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).