ChRB. This can be pronounced in ancient Hebrew, charab, chareb, chereb, or choreb, each word having a different meaning on its own. But the root of the word is Charab, utter annihilation.
The word has a very central and immensely important meaning in the Torah (and thus in the Old Testament) and I was very surprised at the time that the Golden Dawn knew only one meaning of ChRB, namely chereb, the sword. For the sword also has an immensely important meaning for magic, because in the...