חׇרְבָּה

chor.bah · desolation

Hebrew · Strong's H2723 · Noun · Sounds like: khor-baw' · 42 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

feminine of חֹרֶב; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation; decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
חָרְבָּה n.f. waste, desolation, ruin

Every occurrence

  1. Jeremiah 25:18 לְחָרְבָּ֧ה le.cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

  2. Jeremiah 27:17 חָרְבָּֽה׃ cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

  3. Jeremiah 44:2 חָרְבָּה֙ cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    Thus saith Jehovah 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,

  4. Jeremiah 44:6 לְחָרְבָּ֥ה le.cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    Wherefore my wrath and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.

  5. Jeremiah 44:22 לְחָרְבָּ֨ה le.cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

  6. Jeremiah 49:13 לְחָרְב֥וֹת le.cha.re.Vot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

  7. Ezekiel 5:14 לְחָרְבָּ֣ה le.cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

  8. Ezekiel 13:4 בָּחֳרָב֑וֹת bo.cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

  9. Ezekiel 25:13 חָרְבָּה֙ cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.

  10. Ezekiel 26:20 כָּחֳרָב֤וֹת ko.cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

  11. Ezekiel 29:9 וְחָרְבָּ֔ה ve.cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. Because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it;

  12. Ezekiel 29:10 לְחָרְבוֹת֙ le.cha.re.Vot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even unto the border of Ethiopia.

  13. Ezekiel 33:24 הֶחֳרָב֨וֹת he.cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

  14. Ezekiel 33:27 בֶּֽחֳרָבוֹת֙ be.cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    Thus shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured; and they that are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

  15. Ezekiel 35:4 חָרְבָּ֣ה cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

  16. Ezekiel 36:4 וְלֶחֳרָב֤וֹת ve.le.cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;

  17. Ezekiel 36:10 וְהֶחֳרָב֖וֹת ve.he.cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded;

  18. Ezekiel 36:33 הֶחֳרָבֽוֹת׃ he.cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded.

  19. Ezekiel 38:8 לְחָרְבָּ֖ה le.cha.re.Bah · A person, place or thing

    After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.

  20. Ezekiel 38:12 חֳרָב֣וֹת cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth.

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