חרשׁ TWOT 762, 763 ( ^√ of foll.; meaning unknown; suggestions on etym. v. infr. )

• II . [ חֶ˜רֶשׁ S 2791, 2792, 2796 TWOT 760a, 761b, 763a GK 3088, 3089, 3090 ] n. [ m. ] magic art or perhaps magic drug ( Aramaic ܚܰܪܶܫ ( ḥareš ) practice magic , חָרָשׁ , ܚܰܪܳܫܳܐ ( ḥarošo ) magician , ܚܶܪܫܳܐ ( ḥeršo ) incantation, magic art, preparation of magic potion , so Ethiopic ˜˜˜ ( ḥarāsi ) one using incantations; ˜˜˜, ˜˜˜, ˜˜s ( ḥaras, ḥars, ḥarās ) incantation, magic; comp. perhaps Arabic خُرْسٌ , خُرْسَةٌ ( ḫursun, ḫursatun ) a medicinal broth given to women in childbed; חֶרֶשׁ perhaps magical drug, v. RS ^JPh. xiv. 1885, 125 ) —only חֲרָשִׁים חֲכַם Is 3:3 skilled in magic arts , or drugs ( || נְבֹון לָ˜חַשׁ ), ( > others gen. = handicraft ).

• III . חֶ˜רֶשׁ S 2791, 2792, 2796 TWOT 760a, 761b, 763a GK 3088, 3089, 3090 n.pr.m. a Levite 1 Ch 9:15 Ö Ραραιηλ , A Αρες , Ö L Αρης .

• חַרְשָׁא S 2797 GK 3095 n.pr.m. head of a family of returning exiles Ezr 2:52 Ö Αρησα , Ö L Βαασα , = Ne 7:54 Ö Αδασα .

• II . חֲר˜שֶׁת n.pr.loc. only in combin. הַגֹּויִם ח׳ ^{, Ḥarosheth} of the nations ( v. גּוֹי ), Ju 4:2 , 13 , 16 ; perhaps mod. el-Ḥariṯîye , on right bank of lower Kishon, v. Thomson Land and Book; Central Palestine, 1883, 215 ff. Bd ^{Pal 241} Be Bla Cooke Hist. Deb. ³ GASm ^Geog.393.

חֲרָשִׁים S 2798 GK 3096 v. חָרָשׁ ^and גַּיְא ^{; also II.} חֶרֶשׁ ^.

comp. compare, compares, comparative. RS W. Robertson Smith.

JPh. Journal of Philology (Engl.). > indicates that the preceding is to be preferred to the following. A Alexandrine MS . of Setpuagint.
n.pr.loc. nomen proprium loci, proper name of place. Be E. Bertheau.

Bla J. S. Black. Cooke G. A. Cooke. GASm George Adam Smith, Historical Geography of the Holy Land.

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