- Original: χάραξ - 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 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 through the idea of scratching); a stake that is (by implication) a palisade or rampart (millitary mound for circumvallation in a siege): - trench.