Word meanings
Senses and individuals
- to destroy H2717B 20
- to dry H2717A 16
- to slay H2717C 4
Strong's dictionary
or חֲרֵב; a primitive root; to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill; decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Every occurrence
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Jeremiah 2:12 חָרְב֥וּ cha.re.Vu · A command to all of you: simple action
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
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Jeremiah 26:9 תֶּחֱרַ֖ב te.che.Rav · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.
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Jeremiah 50:21 חֲרֹ֨ב cha.Ro · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
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Jeremiah 50:27 חִרְבוּ֙ chir.Vu · A command to all of you: simple action
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
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Jeremiah 51:36 וְהַחֲרַבְתִּי֙ ve.ha.cha.rav.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me
Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.