English Word
CHARACTER
Edenic Word
K[H]aROOT
Hebrew Word
חרות
Transliteration
Het-Resh-Vav-Tahf
Pronounciation
KHAR-OOT
Conversion
[KH-R-T/S]
Meaning
graven
Roots
Greek charakter is a stamp derived from
Greek kharassein, (to sharpen, notch, carve or cut).
The Ten Commandments are חרות K[H]aROOS
or K[H]aROOT ("graven") into the stone tablets in Exodus32:16.
חרט K[H]eReDT
is a writing style (Isaiah8:1). חרט K[H]aRaDT is to engrave or chisel; the חרטומים K[H]aRDTOOMeeYM or
"magicians" of Exodus7:11 are masters of
hieroglyphics or engraved CHARACTERS. חריצה K[H]aReeYTSaH is sharpening; חרוץ K[H]aROOTS is a thresher (Isaiah41:15). K[H]aReeYTZ is an incision; חרף K[H]aRaPH is sharp, and חרש K[H]aRaSH
is to plow, engrave, or carve, see HEARSE. The two-letter cutting root is
KH-R. צ Tsadi is a dental too – so see
CARD for more guttural-liquid-dental cutters.
The Indo-European “root” for CHARACTER is gher (to scrape,
scratch). This matches up with גרד GaRaD (to "scrape" - as Job
must do to his skin in Job2:8). קרד QaRaD is to scrape or curry.
Branches
One doesn't have to
dig very deeply to see CARD, CURRY, (DE)GRADE, DEGREE (see “DEGREE), GRADE (to
make level - GaRaR is "smooth" in Ikings: 9),
GRATE, (S)CRAPE, (S)CRATCH and (S)HARP in the Hebrew words above.
One does
have to switch the KR to RK in order to see the source of RAKE (scraping and
leveling tool) and RACC(OON) (literally "the hand scratcher" in
Algonquian Indian).
GASH is an
official cognate of CHARACTER in the AHD.
See
CARD, HEARSE, HERESY, SCRAPER and
SCRATCH.
Bible Verses
Exodus 32:16 והלחת מעשׂה אלהים המה והמכתב מכתב אלהים הוא חרות על־הלחת׃
“And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.”
Strong
(2801)
Related Words
SCRATCH
