Lexical Summary charax: a pointed stake, a rampart Original Word: χάραξTransliteration: charax Phonetic Spelling: (khar'-ax) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a pointed stake, a rampart Meaning: a pointed stake, a rampart Strong's Concordance trench. From charasso (to sharpen to a point; akin to grapho 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 grapho Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5482: χάραξχάραξ, χαρακος, ὁ (χαράσσω); 1. a pale or stake, a palisade ((Aristophanes, Demosthenes, others)). 2. a palisade or rampart (i. e. pales between which earth, stones, trees and timbers are heaped and packed together): Luke 19:43 (Isaiah 37:33; Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 26:8; Polybius; Josephus, Vita43; Arrian exp. Alex. 2, 19, 9; Plutarch, others). |
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