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(Heb. Charsha', çִøְùָׁà , a Chaldaizing form, ,worker or enchanter; Sept. Á᾿ñóÜ and Á᾿äáóÜí ), one of “the Nethinim whose descendants (or rather, perhaps, a place whose inhabitants) returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:52; Neh_7:54). B. C. ante 536. Schwarz (Palest. p. 116) thinks it may be identical with the ruins called by the Arabs Charsha (on Zimmerman's map, Khuras), situated south of wady Sur, about half-way between Beit-Jibrin (Eleutheropolis) on the W., — and Jedur (Gedor) on the E.