חרם

Compare with Arabic ح ر م (ḥ r m).

חֵרֶם • (khérem) m

1. excommunication (act of excommunicating or ejecting), anathema, taboo, dedication, consecration
   • Tanach, Joshua 6:17, with translation of the English Standard Version:

     וְהָיְתָה הָעִיר חֵרֶם הִיא וְכׇל־אֲשֶׁר־בָּהּ לַיהֹוָה רַק רָחָב הַזּוֹנָה תִּחְיֶה הִיא וְכׇל־אֲשֶׁר אִתָּהּ בַּבַּיִת כִּי הֶחְבְּאַתָה אֶת־הַמַּלְאָכִים אֲשֶׁר שָׁלָחְנוּ׃
     וְרַק־אַתֶּם שִׁמְרוּ מִן־הַחֵרֶם פֶּן־תַּחֲרִימוּ וּלְקַחְתֶּם מִן־הַחֵרֶם וְשַׂמְתֶּם אֶת־מַחֲנֵה יִשְׂרָאֵל לְחֵרֶם וַעֲכַרְתֶּם אוֹתוֹ׃

     v'haytá ha'ír khérem, hí v'khól ashér-báh laYHWH; rák Rakháv hazoná tikhyé, hí v'khól-asher itáh babáyit, kí hekhb'áta et-hamal'akhím ashér shalákhnu.
     v'rák atém shimrú min-hakhérem, pén-takharímu, ul'kakhtém min-hakhérem, v'samtém et-makhané Yisra'él l'khérem, va'akhartém otó.

     And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
     But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it.

• → Yiddish: חרם (kheyrem)

• H2764 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• מחר
• רחם

From Hebrew חֵרֶם (khérem).

חרם • (kheyrem) m, plural חרמות (kharomes)

1. excommunication, expulsion from the Jewish community

• בחרם (bekheyrem)

• Steven A. Jacobson (1998) “בחרם”, in A Guide to the More Common Hebraic Words in Yiddish, 5th edition, Fairbanks, AK: National Yiddish Book Center, →ISBN, page 31