Chârab — H2717

Definition

verb

to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill

1. to be waste, lay waste, make desolate, be desolate, be in ruins
1. (Qal) to be waste, be desolate
2. (Niphal)
1. to be made desolate
2. desolate (participle)
3. (Hiphil) to lay waste, make desolate
4. (Hophal) to be laid waste
2. to be dry, be dried up
1. (Qal) to be dried, be dried up
2. (Pual) to be dried
3. (Hiphil) to dry up
4. (Hophal) to be dried up
3. to attack, smite down, slay, fight

Usually translated as

waste, dry, desolate, destroyer, slay, decay, destroy, surely

Origin

or chărêb; a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• diaphtheírō (G1311)
• ekleípō (G1587)
• exolothreúō (G1842)
• erēmía (G2047)
• érēmos (G2048)
• erēmóō (G2049)
• máchomai (G3164)
• xēraínō (G3583)

Occurrences

Chârab occurs 40 times in 36 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Judges (3), 2 Kings (3), Job (1), Psalms (1), Isaiah (11), Jeremiah (5), Ezekiel (7), Hosea (1), Amos (1), Nahum (1), Zephaniah (1)

• Genesis 8:13 — And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up (חָֽרְב֥וּ) from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
• Genesis 8:13 — And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry (חָֽרְב֖וּ).
• Judges 16:7 — And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried (חֹרָ֑בוּ), then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
• Judges 16:8 — Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried (חֹרָ֑בוּ), and she bound him with them.
• Judges 16:24 — And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer (מַחֲרִ֣יב) of our country, which slew many of us.
• 2 Kings 3:23 — And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain (נֶֽחֶרְבוּ֙), and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
• 2 Kings 3:23 — And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain (הָחֳרֵ֤ב), and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
• 2 Kings 19:17 — Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed (הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ) the nations and their lands,
• 2 Kings 19:24 — I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up (וְאַחְרִב֙) all the rivers of besieged places.
• Job 14:11 — As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth (יֶחֱרַ֥ב) and drieth up:
• Psalms 106:9 — He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up (וַֽיֶּחֱרָ֑ב): so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
• Isaiah 19:5 — And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted (יֶחֱרַ֥ב) and dried up.
• Isaiah 19:6 — And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up (וְחָרְב֖וּ): the reeds and flags shall wither.
• Isaiah 34:10 — It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste (תֶּחֱרָ֔ב); none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
• Isaiah 37:18 — Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste (הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ) all the nations, and their countries,
• Isaiah 37:25 — I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up (וְאַחְרִב֙) all the rivers of the besieged places.
• Isaiah 42:15 — I will make waste (אַחֲרִ֤יב) mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
• Isaiah 44:27 — That saith to the deep, Be dry (חֳרָ֑בִי), and I will dry up thy rivers:
• Isaiah 49:17 — Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste (וּמַחֲרִבַ֖יִךְ) shall go forth of thee.
• Isaiah 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up (אַחֲרִ֣יב) the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
• Isaiah 51:10 — Art thou not it which hath dried (הַמַּחֲרֶ֣בֶת) the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
• Isaiah 60:12 — For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted (יֶחֱרָֽבוּ).
• Isaiah 60:12 — For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted (חָרֹ֥ב).
• Jeremiah 2:12 — Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate (חָרְב֥וּ), saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 26:9 — Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate (תֶּחֱרַ֖ב) without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 50:21 — Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste (חֲרֹ֨ב) and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
• Jeremiah 50:27 — Slay (חִרְבוּ֙) all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Jeremiah 51:36 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up (וְהַחֲרַבְתִּי֙) her sea, and make her springs dry.
• Ezekiel 6:6 — In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste (תֶּחֱרַ֔בְנָה), and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
• Ezekiel 6:6 — In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste (יֶחֶרְב֨וּ) and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
• Ezekiel 12:20 — And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste (תֶּחֱרַ֔בְנָה), and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
• Ezekiel 19:7 — And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste (הֶחֱרִ֑יב) their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
• Ezekiel 26:2 — Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste (הָחֳרָֽבָה):
• Ezekiel 26:19 — For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate (נֶחֱרֶ֔בֶת) city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
• Ezekiel 29:12 — And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste (מָֽחֳרָבוֹת֙) shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
• Ezekiel 30:7 — And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted (נַחֲרָב֖וֹת).
• Hosea 13:15 — Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up (וְיֶחֱרַ֣ב): he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
• Amos 7:9 — And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste (יֶחֱרָ֑בוּ); and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
• Nahum 1:4 — He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up (הֶֽחֱרִ֑יב) all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
• Zephaniah 3:6 — I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste (הֶחֱרַ֥בְתִּי), that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.