חָרַץ chârats — properly, to point sharply, i.e. (literally) to wound
Translated in the KJV as bestir self, decide, decree, determine, maim, move.
a primitive root; properly, to point sharply, i.e. (literally) to wound; figuratively, to be alert, to decide.
chârats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 2
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the Lord.
And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 3Participle (passive) 2
For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›