Charats means “decide” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2782 — kerygma (“preaching”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2782 חָרַץ (charats) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. charats (khaw-rats') v. 1. (properly) to point sharply, i.e. (literally) to wound 2. (figuratively) to be alert, to decide It has 12 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include move, maimed, and bestir. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
charats (khaw-rats') v. 1. (properly) to point sharply, i.e. (literally) to wound 2. (figuratively) to be alert, to decide [a primitive root] KJV: bestir self, decide, decree, determine, maim, move.
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to decide
Usage: 1) to cut, sharpen, decide, decree, determine, maim, move, be decisive, be mutilated 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to cut, mutilate 1a2) to sharpen 1a3) to decide 1b) (Niphal) to be decisive
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render charats, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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12 indexed usages in Old Testament.
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2782.
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2782, grouped by book.
Charats (Strong's H2782) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "decide". charats (khaw-rats') v. 1. (properly) to point sharply, i.e. (literally) to wound 2. (figuratively) to be alert, to decide
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's H2782 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2782 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as move, maimed, and bestir. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.