- Transliteration: Charax

- Phonetic: khar'-ax

- Definition:

1. a pale or stake, a palisade

2. a palisade or rampart

a. pales between which earth, stones, trees, and timbers are heaped and packed together

- Origin: from charasso (to sharpen to a point, akin to G1125" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1125 through the idea of scratching)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: From charasso (to sharpen to a point; akin to G1125" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1125 through the idea of scratching); a stake that is (by implication) a palisade or rampart (millitary mound for circumvallation in a siege): - trench.