Charax (G5482) refers to a military palisade — a rampart or barricade constructed from pointed stakes, used in siege warfare to surround a city and cut off escape. It appears in Jesus' prophecy over Jerusalem (Luke 19:43) with devastating precision.
Jesus wept over Jerusalem and then prophesied with surgical military precision: 'The days will come upon you when your enemies will set up a charax around you and surround you and hem you in on every side' (Lk 19:43). The Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD fulfilled this literally — Josephus records that the Romans built a wall of circumvallation (a charax) around the entire city, cutting off all escape. This happened because, Jesus said, Jerusalem 'did not know the time of your visitation' (Lk 19:44). The rejected King's tears become the city's destruction. Charax is a word of prophetic precision — the exact military strategy Jesus named decades before it happened.