charax <5482>
carax charax
| Pronunciation | : | khar'-ax |
| Origin | : | from charasso (to sharpen to a point, akin to 1125 through the idea of scratching) |
| Reference | : | - |
| PrtSpch | : | n m (noun masculine) |
| In Greek | : | caraka 1 |
| In NET | : | an embankment 1 |
| In AV | : | trench 1 |
| Count | : | 1 |
| Definition | : |
1) a pale or stake, a palisade 2) a palisade or rampart 2a) pales between which earth, stones, trees, and timbers are heaped and packed together from charasso (to sharpen to a point; akin to 1125 through the idea of scratching); a stake, i.e. (by implication) a palisade or rampart (military mound for circumvallation in a siege): KJV -- trench. see GREEK for 1125 |
| Related Hebrew | : | - |
