Bible Names

Cherith: meaning of the name

Cherith means “cutting; piercing; slaying.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Cherith in Hebrew and Greek

כְּרִית H3747

Kᵉrîyth (ker-eeth') — Kerith, a brook of Palestine

from H3772 (כָּרַת); a cut;

Places named Cherith

Cherith in Scripture

“Cherith” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Kings 17:3

    Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

  • 1 Kings 17:5

    So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.