Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2721
חֹרֶב
chorebkho'-reb
drought; desolation
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chôreb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2721is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2721
drought or desolation
The King James renders it: desolation, drought, dry, heat, [idiom] utterly, waste.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
choreb is rendered "drought; desolation". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "drought".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:40As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Genesis 31:40חֹ֖רֶב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: drought, and desolation.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| droughtStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 31:40As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes. |
| desolationStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- dryness3
- heat3
- a drought2
- from heat2
- desolation1
- destruction1
- devastation1
- into a desolation1
- like heat1
- to the heat1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֹרֶף | choreph | autumn | Uses7 |
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חֹ֔רֶב2
- חֹ֤רֶב2
- חֹ֣רֶב2
- חֹ֖רֶב1
- חֹ֚רֶב1
- חֹ֥רֶב1
- חֹ֜רֶב1
- חֹֽרֶב׃1
- כְּחֹ֣רֶב1
- לְחֹ֥רֶב1
- לַחֹ֥רֶב1
- מֵחֹ֑רֶב1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular11HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- חֹ֖רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: heat
Judges
three uses
then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
- חֹ֔רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: dryness
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
- חֹ֤רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: dryness
And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.
- חֹ֤רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: dryness
Job
one use
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- חֹֽרֶב׃chorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: heat
Isaiah
five uses
a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.
- מֵחֹ֑רֶבmechorevpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from heat
For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
- מֵחֹ֔רֶבmechorevpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from heat
like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
- כְּחֹ֣רֶבkechorevpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like heat
- חֹ֚רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: heat
They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
- חֹ֔רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: devastation
Jeremiah
three uses
Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
- לַחֹ֥רֶבlachorevpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the heat
For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
- לְחֹ֥רֶבlechorevpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a desolation
A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
- חֹ֥רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: a drought
Ezekiel
one use
therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
- חֹ֣רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: destruction
Zephaniah
one use
Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
- חֹ֣רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: desolation
Haggai
one use
I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
- חֹ֜רֶבchorevnoun · masculine singulartagged: a drought
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.