Strong's Lexicon

H2724

H2724 — חָרָבָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewcharabahnoun femOccurrences: 8TWOT: 71e

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H2724
Word:חָרָבָה
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:feminine of H2720
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:8
Transliteration:charabah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:khaw-raw-baw'
Meaning:1. a desert
KJV Renderings:dry (ground, land).

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חָֽרָבָה noun feminine dry ground; — absolute ׳ ח Gen 7:22 + 7 t.; opposed to הַיָּם Exod 14:21 ( J ), Hag 2:6 compare Gen 7:22 ( J ); opposed to water of Jordan Josh 3:17 (twice in verse) ( J ), Josh 4:18 ( E ), 2Kgs 2:8 of Nile-arms ׳ וְנָתַתִּ֫י יְאֹרִים ח Ezek 30:12.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חרבה (g’hor-b)

Leviticus 26:31

KJV: And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
EHCC: make your cities waste, (lit. a desolation)

Ezra 9:9

KJV: For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.to repair: Heb. to set up
EHCC: to repair the desolations thereof,

Job 3:14

KJV: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
EHCC: which built desolate places

Psalms 9:6

KJV: O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.O thou…: or, The destructions of the enemy are come to a perpetual end: and their cities hast thou destroyed, etc
EHCC: (7).destructions are come to a perpetual

Psalms 102:8

KJV: Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
EHCC: (7)-1 am like an ow! of the desert,

Psalms 109:10

KJV: Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
EHCC: also out of their desolate places.

Isaiah 5:17

KJV: Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
EHCC: and the waste places of the fat onea

Isaiah 44:26

KJV: That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:decayed…: Heb. wastes
EHCC: and 1 will raise up the decayed places

Isaiah 48:21

KJV: And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
EHCC: he led them through the deserts:

Isaiah 49:19

KJV: For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
EHCC: thy waste and thy desolate places,

Isaiah 51:3

KJV: For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
EHCC: he will comfort all Aer waste places ;

Isaiah 52:9

KJV: Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
EHCC: ye waste places of Jerusalem:

Isaiah 58:12

KJV: And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
EHCC: shall build the old waste places:

Isaiah 61:4

KJV: And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
EHCC: they shall build the old scastes,

Jeremiah 7:34

KJV: Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
EHCC: for the land shall be desolate, (lit. for de-

Jeremiah 25:9

KJV: Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
EHCC: und perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 44:2

KJV: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
EHCC: this day they (are) a desolation,

Jeremiah 49:13

KJV: For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
EHCC: shall be perpetual wastes.

Jeremiah 13:4

KJV: Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
EHCC: -are like the foxes in the deserts.

Jeremiah 25:13

KJV: And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
EHCC: 1 will make it desolate from Teman;

Jeremiah 26:20

KJV: And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath–jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
EHCC: in places desolate of old,

Jeremiah 29:9

KJV: For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord.falsely: Heb. in a lie
EHCC: Egypt shall be desolate and waste ;

Jeremiah 93:24

EHCC: they that inhabit those 4

Jeremiah 35:4

KJV: And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:door: Heb. threshold, or, vessel
EHCC: 1 will lay thy cities waste,

Jeremiah 36:4

KJV: Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
EHCC: 0 the desolate wastes,

Jeremiah 88:8

EHCC: which have been always waste:

Daniel 9:2

KJV: In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
EHCC: seventy years in the desolations of Jeru-

Malachi 1:4

KJV: Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
EHCC: return and build the desolate places ;
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