Utterly destroy] lit. 'devote' (to Jehovah). The first idea of the word (herem) is that the object is dedicated to Jehovah, and so forbidden to common use: see Joshua 6:18. We meet with the same root in harem (the women's apartments), and haram (the sacred enclosure at Mecca): cp. Leviticus 27:29.

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