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 |
| 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):-trench. see GREEK for 1125 |
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