Be Silent חָרֵשׁ

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Oct 2, 2025 · 3m

We are in chapter fourteen of Exodus with our word for today. חָרֵשׁ be silent, be deaf, speechless, keep still. It is used 47 times in the Old Testament. We find our word used in the sense of interjecting yourself into a situation. Genesis 34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, וְהֶחֱרִ֥שׁ so Jacob held his peace until they came. Notice that Jacob didn’t interject himself into the situation until his sons came back in from working with the livestock. Numbers 30:3-4, 6-7 When a young woman still living in her father’s…