2776. Cheres
Lexicon
Cheres: Sun, earthenware, potsherd

Original Word: חֶרֶס
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Cherec
Pronunciation: kheh'-res
Phonetic Spelling: (kheh'-res)
KJV: Heres
NASB: Heres
Word Origin: [the same as H2775 (חֶרֶס חַרסָה - Potsherd)]

1. shining
2. Cheres, a mountain in Israel

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Heres

The same as cherec; shining; Cheres, a mountain in Palestine -- Heres.

see HEBREW cherec

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as cheres
Definition
a mountain E. of the Jordan, also dwelling place of the Amorites
NASB Translation
Heres (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
II. [חֶ֫רֶס] proper name, of a location 1. abode of Amorites, בְּהַרחֶֿרֶס בְּאַיָּלוֺן וּבְשַׁעַלְבִֿים Judges 1:35, since חֶרֶס sun = שֶׁמֶשׁ, perhaps = בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ

1 (q. v.), so Stu (who proposes עִיר חֶרֶס = עָר), Ke Be BuRS 17 Öttli Bla; ᵐ5 ἐν τῷ [ὄρει τοῦ] Μυρσινῶνι (-ος) = הַר הֲדַס.

2 place east of Jordan מִלְמַעֲלֵה הֶחָ֑רֶס Judges 8:13 from the ascent of Heres, ᵐ5 Αρες; the point whence Gideon turned back from pursuing Midian; Aq Symm read הֶהָרִים (see LagOnom. 96, 2nd ed. 131) so SS. — תִּמְנַתחֶֿרֶס Judges 2:9 see below תִּמְנַת, √ מנה.

III. חֶרֶס, חַרְסִית, חרסות see below חרשׂ.

חרע (√ of following; perhaps compare Aramaic Ethpa`al be clever, shrewd, especially in bad sense; Arabic split, VIII. originate, invent).

Forms and Transliterations
חֶ֔רֶס חרס Cheres ḥe·res ḥeres
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Englishman's Concordance
Judges 1:35
HEB: לָשֶׁ֣בֶת בְּהַר־ חֶ֔רֶס בְּאַיָּל֖וֹן וּבְשַֽׁעַלְבִ֑ים
NAS: in Mount Heres, in Aijalon
KJV: in mount Heres in Aijalon,
INT: living Mount Heres Aijalon Shaalbim

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 2776
1 Occurrence


ḥe·res — 1 Occ.

2775b
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