חֲרָשִׁים
ḥărāšîm
cut in
Strong's H2798NounHebrewTWOT 760

חֲרָשִׁים (ḥărāšîm) is a Hebrew noun meaning cut in. It appears 1 time in 1 book of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2798).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 760)

Range of meaning (TWOT 760)cut in, engrave, plough, devise; fabricating mischief against; scratch, fabricate, be silent, let alone, be deaf, fabricator, mechanic; cease, conceal, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow, plower, be quiet…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חָרַשׁ verb: cut in, engrave, plough, devise

Strong's H2790 חָרַשׁ: to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)
KJV:× altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.

Strong's H2794 חֹרֵשׁ: a fabricator or mechanic
KJV:artificer.

Strong's H2798 חֲרָשִׁים: mechanics, the name of a valley in Jerusalem
KJV:Charashim, craftsmen.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

1 Chronicles 4:14

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