Lexical Summary cheret: engraving tool, stylus Original Word: חֶרֶטTransliteration: cheret Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-ret) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: engraving tool, stylus Meaning: a chisel, graver, a style for, writing Strong's Concordance graving tool, pen From a primitive root meaning to engrave; a chisel or graver; also a style for writing -- graving tool, pen. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2747. cheret חֶ֫רֶט noun [masculine] graving-tool, stylus — 1 graving-tool, with which Aaron fashioned (וַיָּצַר) the molten calf Exodus 32:4 (E). 2 stylus, for writing on tablet (גִּלָּיוֺן): אֱנוֺשׁ בְּחֶרֶט עָלָיו כְּתֹב Isaiah 8:1 write on it with a man's (i.e. an ordinary) stylus = in common characters, intelligible to all (see BenzArchaeology 290). |
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