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. Daniel 9:2 לְחָרְב֥וֹת le.cha.re.Vot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

  2. Malachi 1:4 חֳרָב֔וֹת cho.ra.Vot · A person, place or thing

    Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.

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