Quick Definition
a mound for besieging
Strong's Definition
akin to G1125 (γράφω) through the idea of scratching); a stake, i.e. (by implication) a palisade or rampart (military mound for circumvallation in a siege)
Derivation: from (to sharpen to a point;
KJV Usage: trench
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
χάραξ, 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): Luk_19:43 (Isa_37:33; Eze_4:2; Eze_26:8; Polybius; Josephus, Vita43; Arrian exp. Alex. 2, 19, 9; Plutarch, others).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
χάραξ charax 1x
a stake; a military palisade, rampart, formed from the earth thrown out of the ditch, and stuck with sharp stakes or palisades, Luk_19:43
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
χάραξ , -ακος , ὁ
( < χαράσσω ),
[in LXX for H5550 , H4692 , etc.;]
1. a pointed stake.
2. a palisade or rampart: Luk_19:43 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
χάραξ [page 684]
For the meaning palisade, as in Luk. 19:48, cf. BGU III. 830 .5 (i/A.D.) συμβαλὼν χάρ [ακα ] περὶ τοῦ ἐ̣ [λαιῶν ]ος : and see Syll .3 363 .1 (B.C. 297) οἱ ] ἐν τῶι χάρακι , where the reference is to a fortified camp. The word has its earlier meaning of stake, vine-prop in PSI IV. 393 .6 (B.C. 242 1) χάρακος καλαμίνου μυριάδες τρεῖς , BGU IV. 1122 .17 (B.C. 13) τὸ φυτὸν καὶ χάρακας καὶ φλοῦν .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
χάραξ χάραξ, ακος, [Etym: χα^ράσσω] "a pointed stake": esp., "a vine-prop or pole", Ar. , Thuc. "a pale", used in entrenchments, Ar. , Dem. collectively, = χαράκωμα II, Dem. , Polyb.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
χάραξ, -ακος, ὁ
(χαράσσω), [in LXX for סֹלְלָה, מָצוֹר, etc. ;]
__1. a pointed stake
__2. a palisade or rampart: Luk.19:43.†
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