Occurrences
Chorbâh occurs 42 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (2), Ezra (1), Job (1), Psalms (3), Isaiah (9), Jeremiah (10), Ezekiel (14), Daniel (1), Malachi (1)
- Leviticus 26:31 — And I will make your cities waste (חָרְבָּ֔ה), and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
- Leviticus 26:33 — And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste (חָרְבָּֽה).
- Ezra 9:9 — 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 (חָרְבֹתָ֔יו) thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
- Job 3:14 — With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places (חֳרָב֣וֹת) for themselves;
- Psalms 9:6 — O thou enemy, destructions (חֳרָב֗וֹת) are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
- Psalms 102:6 — I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert (חֳרָבֽוֹת).
- Psalms 109:10 — Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places (מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶֽם).
- Isaiah 5:17 — Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places (וְחָרְב֥וֹת) of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
- Isaiah 44:26 — 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 (וְחָרְבוֹתֶ֖יהָ) thereof:
- Isaiah 48:21 — And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts (בָּחֳרָבוֹת֙): he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
- Isaiah 49:19 — For thy waste (חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙) 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.
- Isaiah 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places (חָרְבֹתֶ֔יהָ); 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.
- Isaiah 52:9 — Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places (חָרְב֖וֹת) of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 58:12 — And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places (חָרְב֣וֹת): 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.
- Isaiah 61:4 — And they shall build the old wastes (חָרְב֣וֹת), they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
- Isaiah 64:11 — Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste (לְחָרְבָּֽה).
- Jeremiah 7:34 — 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 (לְחָרְבָּ֖ה).
- Jeremiah 22:5 — But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation (לְחָרְבָּ֥ה).
- Jeremiah 25:9 — 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 (וּלְחָרְב֖וֹת).
- Jeremiah 25:11 — And this whole land shall be a desolation (לְחָרְבָּ֖ה), and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Jeremiah 25:18 — To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation (לְחָרְבָּ֧ה), an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
- Jeremiah 27:17 — Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste (חָרְבָּֽה)?
- Jeremiah 44:2 — 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 (חָרְבָּה֙), and no man dwelleth therein,
- Jeremiah 44:6 — Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted (לְחָרְבָּ֥ה) and desolate, as at this day.
- Jeremiah 44:22 — So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation (לְחָרְבָּ֨ה), and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
- Jeremiah 49:13 — 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 (לְחָרְב֥וֹת).
- Ezekiel 5:14 — Moreover I will make thee waste (לְחָרְבָּ֣ה), and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
- Ezekiel 13:4 — O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts (בָּחֳרָב֑וֹת).
- Ezekiel 25:13 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate (חָרְבָּה֙) from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 26:20 — When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate (כָּחֳרָב֤וֹת) of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
- Ezekiel 29:9 — And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste (וְחָרְבָּ֔ה); and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
- Ezekiel 29:10 — Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste (לְחָרְבוֹת֙) and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
- Ezekiel 33:24 — Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes (הֶחֳרָב֨וֹת) of 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.
- Ezekiel 33:27 — Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes (בֶּֽחֳרָבוֹת֙) 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 be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
- Ezekiel 35:4 — I will lay thy cities waste (חָרְבָּ֣ה), and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 36:4 — Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes (וְלֶחֳרָב֤וֹת), and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
- Ezekiel 36:10 — And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes (וְהֶחֳרָב֖וֹת) shall be builded:
- Ezekiel 36:33 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes (הֶחֳרָבֽוֹת) shall be builded.
- Ezekiel 38:8 — After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste (לְחָרְבָּ֖ה): but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
- Ezekiel 38:12 — To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places (חֳרָב֣וֹת) that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
- Daniel 9:2 — 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 (לְחָרְב֥וֹת) of Jerusalem.
- Malachi 1:4 — Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places (חֳרָב֔וֹת); 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.