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Hebrew · Strong's H2720

חָרֵב

charebkhaw-rabe'

parched or ruined

1890 spelling: chârêb

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

parched or ruined

Rendered in the KJV as

desolate, dry, waste.

  • 10
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 9
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 10 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 9

  • חֲרֵבָ֔ה2
  • הֶחָרֵ֛ב1
  • הֶחֳרֵב֛וֹת1
  • הֶחֳרֵב֔וֹת1
  • וַחֲרֵבָ֑ה1
  • חָרֵ֣ב1
  • חָרֵ֔ב1
  • חָרֵֽב׃1
  • חֲ֭רֵבָה1

How it is rendered · 5

  • [is] desolate5
  • the wasted2
  • and dry1
  • dry1
  • the desolate1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 5

  • adjective · feminine singular3
  • adjective · masculine singular3
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine plural2
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singular1
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HAafsa · 3
  • HAamsa · 3
  • HTd/Aafpa · 2
  • HC/Aafsa · 1
  • HTd/Aamsa · 1

All 10, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Nehemiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Leviticus1 occurrence
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Proverbs1 occurrence
Jeremiah2 occurrences
Ezekiel2 occurrences
Haggai2 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).