Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2723
חׇרְבָּה
chorbahkhor-baw'
desolation
42 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chorbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2723is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 34spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2723
properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
The King James renders it: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
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
chorbah is rendered "desolation". It stands 42 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-four different ways.
The first use
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
Leviticus 26:31חָרְבָּ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's forty-two uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- into a ruin5
- into a desolation4
- a ruin3
- ruins3
- a waste place2
- into ruins of2
- ruins of2
- the waste places2
- waste places2
- a desolation1
- among ruins1
- and a ruin1
and 14 more, 42 uses in all
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.
The words it stands beside
All 42, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
34 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
- לְחָרְבָּ֖ה3
- חָרְבָּה֙2
- חָרְבָּֽה׃2
- חֳרָב֣וֹת2
- חָרְב֣וֹת2
- לְחָרְבָּ֥ה2
- לְחָרְב֥וֹת2
- בֶּֽחֳרָבוֹת֙1
- בָּחֳרָבוֹת֙1
- בָּחֳרָב֑וֹת1
- הֶחֳרָב֨וֹת1
- הֶחֳרָבֽוֹת׃1
and 22 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular9HR/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular6HNcfsa
- noun · feminine plural5HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HNcfpc
- preposition + noun · feminine plural3HR/Ncfpa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncfpc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural2HTd/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Ncfpc/Sp3fs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncfpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HC/Rd/Ncfpa
Leviticus
two uses
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
- חָרְבָּ֔הcharbahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a waste place
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
- חָרְבָּֽה׃charbahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a waste place
Ezra
one use
Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
- חָרְבֹתָ֔יוcharevotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ruins its
Job
one use
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
- חֳרָב֣וֹתchoravotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: ruins
Psalms
three uses
The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
- חֳרָב֗וֹתchoravotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: ruins
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- חֳרָבֽוֹת׃choravotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: waste places
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃mecharevoteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: away from ruins their
Isaiah
nine uses
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
- וְחָרְב֥וֹתvecharevotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and ruins of
who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
- וְחָרְבוֹתֶ֖יהָvecharevoteihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and ruins its
They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
- בָּחֳרָבוֹת֙bochoravotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in waste places
For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
- חָרְבֹתַ֙יִךְ֙charevotayikhnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: waste places your
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
- חָרְבֹתֶ֔יהָcharevoteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: waste places its
Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
- חָרְב֖וֹתcharevotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O waste places of
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
- חָרְב֣וֹתcharevotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ruins of
They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
- חָרְב֣וֹתcharevotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ruins of
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
- לְחָרְבָּֽה׃lecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a ruin
Jeremiah
ten uses
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
- לְחָרְבָּ֖הlecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a desolation
But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
- לְחָרְבָּ֥הlecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a ruin
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- וּלְחָרְב֖וֹתulecharevotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and into ruins of
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
- לְחָרְבָּ֖הlecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a desolation
to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- לְחָרְבָּ֧הlecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a ruin
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
- חָרְבָּֽה׃charebahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a ruin
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation
- חָרְבָּה֙charebahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a ruin
Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.
- לְחָרְבָּ֥הlecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a ruin
So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
- לְחָרְבָּ֨הlecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a desolation
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.”
- לְחָרְב֥וֹתlecharevotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into ruins of
Ezekiel
fourteen uses
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
- לְחָרְבָּ֣הlecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a ruin
Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins.
- בָּחֳרָב֑וֹתbochoravotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: among ruins
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
- חָרְבָּה֙charebahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a desolation
then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
- כָּחֳרָב֤וֹתkochoravotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: like waste places
The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
- וְחָרְבָּ֔הvecharebahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a ruin
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.
- לְחָרְבוֹת֙lecharevotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into ruins of
“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
- הֶחֳרָב֨וֹתhechoravotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the waste places
Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.
- בֶּֽחֳרָבוֹת֙bechoravotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in the waste places
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- חָרְבָּ֣הcharebahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a ruin
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- וְלֶחֳרָב֤וֹתvelechoravotconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and to the waste places
I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
- וְהֶחֳרָב֖וֹתvehechoravotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the waste places
This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.
- הֶחֳרָבֽוֹת׃hechoravotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the waste places
After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
- לְחָרְבָּ֖הlecharebahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a desolation
in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
- חֳרָב֣וֹתchoravotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: waste places
Daniel
one use
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
- לְחָרְב֥וֹתlecharevotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to ruins of
Malachi
one use
Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.
- חֳרָב֔וֹתchoravotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: ruins
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
