Quick Definition
χάραξ, ακός, ὁ n.m. 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
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
χάραξ, -ακος, ὁ, (χαράσσωλ) ; 1. a pale or stake, α palisade, [(Arstph., Dem., al.)]. 2. a palisade or rampart (i. e. pales between which earth, stones, trees and timbers are heaped and packed together): Lk. xix. 43 (Is. xxxvii. 33; Ezek. iv. 2; xxvi. 8; Polyb.; Joseph. vit. 43; Arr. exp. Alex. 2, 19, 9; Plut., al.).
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, Lk. 19:43*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
χάραξ, -ακος, ὁ
(< χαράσσω), [in LXX for סֹלְלָה, מָצוֹר, etc. ;]
a pointed stake
a palisade or rampart: Lk 19:43.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
χάραξ (= Chrest. II. p. 88) οὐ τῶν χαρα[κτή]ρων μόνων κληῬ. 159) τέλει τέ μοι κύριε, τὸν μέγαν, κύριον, ἄφθεγτον χαρακτῆρα (““ ποίαπι᾽)), ἵνα αὐτὸν ἔχω. In the case of Syll* γ8338 (after B.C. 27) μέχρι τῶν Σεβαστείων εὐπλόησεν χαρακτήρων, Deissmann (1.1.8 5 p. 341 η.1) translates ‘‘he made a successful voyage to the August Persons (Augustus and Livia),’’ taking χαρακτήρ thus early in the transferred sense of ‘“‘person.” See also notes on the word by J. Geffcken in Exp 7 xxi. p. 426f., and by A. Korte in flermes \xiv. (1929), p. 69 ff.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
χάραξ (charax) — barricade. χάραξ [χᾰ], ᾰκος, ὁ, also ἡ, (χαράσσω) pointed stake: especially,
I. vine-prop, pole, [Refs 5th c.BC+] of those who trust in a 'broken reed', [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. pale, used in fortifying the entrenchments of a camp, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; = Latin vallus, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
II.2. collectively, ={χαράκωμα}, palisaded camp, Theophil.[Refs 4th c.BC+]; palisade, χάρακα βαλέσθαι πρὸς τῇ πόλει (variant{χαράκωμα}) [Refs 4th c.BC+]; = Latin vallum, [NT+2nd c.BC+]; χάρακα τίθεσθαι form an entrenched camp, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἀποταφρεύειν, περιταφρεύειν,[Refs 4th c.BC+]
III. cutting, slip, especially of an olive, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of other plants, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III.2. collectively, ={ἀκανθώδη φυτά}, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
IV. a seafish, one of the breams, Sargus, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also a fish of the Red Sea, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
V. name of a bandage, [Refs 1st c.AD+] in signification 1, and in [Refs 2nd c.AD+]