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==Etymology and toponymy==
Cherith is a common English spelling of the Hebrew name, which comes from the Hebrew root {{lang|he|כרת}} {{smallcaps|k-r-t}} meaning "to cut off" or "cut down".<ref>[http://biblehub.com/hebrew/3747.htm  ''Kerith'' on Bible Hub], "Word Origin: from ''karath''"</ref><ref>[http://biblehub.com/hebrew/3747.htm Definition of ''karath'', New American Standard: Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible] via Bible Hub</ref> The name also signifies ''to engrave'' or ''carve'', ''a cutting'', ''separation'', ''gorge'', ''torrent-bed'', or ''winter-stream''.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Chorath is the name used in the 3rd-century BCE Greek translation of the [[Torah]] known as the [[Septuagint]].

The Kerith is a ''naḥal'' in Hebrew, a wadi or seasonal stream.