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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Hebrew - English Dictionary

H2763 - Destroy

Strong's No.:H2763

Hebrew:חָרַם

Transliteration:châram

Phonetic:khaw-ram'

Word Origin:A primitive root

Bible Usage:make {accursed} {consecrate} (utterly) {destroy} {devote} {forfeit} have a flat {nose} utterly ({slay} make away).

Part of Speech:Verb

Strongs
Definition:

to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physically and reflexively to be blunt as to the nose


Brown Driver
Biggs Definition:

1. to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate

a. (Hiphil)

1. to prohibit (for common use), ban

2. to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction

3. to exterminate, completely destroy

b. (Hophal)

1. to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction

2. to be devoted, be forfeited

3. to be completely destroyed

2. to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body)

a. (Qal) to mutilate

b. (Hiphil) to divide


Bible References:
Destroy

Translation
Occurrences:
accursed ( 1 )
away ( 1 )
consecrate ( 1 )
destroy ( 13 )
destroyed ( 21 )
destroying ( 2 )
devote ( 1 )
devoted ( 1 )
forfeited ( 1 )
nose ( 1 )
slay ( 1 )
utterly ( 6 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.