חַדְרָ֔ךְ
chad.rakh
Hadrach
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Ḥadrakh (H2317): A Single Biblical Reference Ḥadrakh appears only once in the Hebrew Bible, making it one of the rarest proper nouns in biblical literature. Based on the lexicon data, it is identified as a place name with no alternative forms or variants recorded. This singular occurrence severely limits what can be determined about its semantic range or cultural significance from biblical sources alone. The extreme scarcity of this term—appearing just a single time in the entire biblical corpus—means that context from repeated usage cannot establish its meaning or importance. Unlike common biblical place names that appear multiple times and help clarify their geographical or political role, Ḥadrakh remains isolated in the textual record, appearing only in whatever verse contains it. This creates a fundamental constraint on any analysis: the word's usage cannot be documented beyond its single attestation, and patterns of meaning cannot be established from comparative biblical examples. For general readers, Ḥadrakh represents the category of biblical terms whose full significance remains unclear due to minimal textual evidence. Its status as a place name suggests geographical or geopolitical relevance to the biblical authors, but the provided lexical data alone cannot specify what role it played or why it warranted inclusion.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text