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title: חָרַת — grave · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָרַת (2801), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: grave. BDB 1906: vb. grave, engrave. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָרַת

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«חָרַת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **grave** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2801 · **BDB:** חָרַת

### Glosses

engraved (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

grave [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2801/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. grave, engrave [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2801/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. grave, engrave, only Pt. pass. חָרוּת עַל הַלֻּחֹת Ex 32:16 (E), engraved upon the tablets (by finger of God), but from absence of ‖ in cogn. lang. (Arabic خَرَتَ is perforate, bore, slit) prob. error for חָרוּשׁ (Je 17:1).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָרַת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2801/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 32:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.32.16/)

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וְהַ֨לֻּחֹ֔ת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה וְהַמִּכְתָּ֗ב מִכְתַּ֤ב אֱלֹהִים֙ ה֔וּא חָר֖וּת עַל־הַלֻּחֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the tablets \[were\].the.work of.God they and the writing \[was\].the.writing of.God it engraved on the tablets

*JPS 1917:* And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

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