to decide
cha.rats marks what is set or decided, and also occurs in clauses about a tongue’s movement or utterance.
The prevailing use concerns an outcome, end, or limit presented as settled: the supplied verses speak of a sentence, days, desolations, and an end. Two tongue clauses and two further contexts show additional uses whose precise English contribution is less clear from the translation alone.
Senses in use
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Settled outcome, limit, or end · dominant
In 1 Kings 20:40, the Qal perfect occurs in the king's statement about the servant's sentence, which the APB renders, “you yourself have decided it.” Participial forms occur with desolations and an end in Daniel 9:26, Daniel 9:27, Daniel 11:36, Isaiah 10:23, and Isaiah 28:22; the APB presents these as “determined,” “decreed,” or “decisive.” Job 14:5 places a person's days and months within a stated limit, while Isaiah 10:22 describes an end in the remnant oracle.
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Action involving the tongue · occasional
In Exodus 11:7, the Qal imperfect stands in the statement that not even a dog shall move its tongue. In Joshua 10:21, the Qal perfect occurs in the report that no man among Israel's sons uttered his tongue; the two clauses associate the form with tongue activity.
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Decisive action or a listed condition · occasional
In 2 Samuel 5:24, the Qal imperfect appears in the command given after the sound of marching, and the APB renders the response, “act decisively.” In Leviticus 22:22, a Qal passive participle appears within the list of disqualifying conditions for offerings; the APB includes “cut” among that list, but its exact correspondence to this form cannot be isolated from the translation.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the outcome passages, the APB uses wording such as “decided,” “determined,” “decreed,” and “decisive end.” In the tongue clauses it instead renders movement or utterance; because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings do not establish fixed word-for-word equivalents.