| Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 5482: χάραξ χάραξ, χαρακος, ὁ (χαράσσω); 1. a pale or stake, a palisade ((Aristophanes, Demosthenes, others)). 2. a palisade or rampart (i. e. pales between which earth, stones, trees and timbers are heaped and packed together): Luke 19:43 (Isaiah 37:33; Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 26:8; Polybius; Josephus, Vita43; Arrian exp. Alex. 2, 19, 9; Plutarch, others). | 



