Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2724
חָרָבָה
charabahkhaw-raw-baw'
dry ground
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chârâbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2724is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2724
a desert
The King James renders it: dry (ground, land).
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
charabah is rendered "dry ground". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 7:22Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Genesis 7:22בֶּחָֽרָבָ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- on the dry ground4
- the dry ground2
- dry ground1
- into the dry ground1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָרָה | charah | to be incensed | Uses91 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- בֶּחָֽרָבָ֖ה1
- בֶּחָֽרָבָ֛ה1
- בֶּחָ֣רָבָ֔ה1
- בֶּחָרָבָֽה׃1
- הֶחָרָבָ֑ה1
- הֶחָרָבָֽה׃1
- חָֽרָבָ֔ה1
- לֶחָרָבָ֑ה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular5HRd/Ncfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Genesis
one use
Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
- בֶּחָֽרָבָ֖הbecharavahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the dry ground
Exodus
one use
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
- לֶחָרָבָ֑הlecharavahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: into the dry ground
Joshua
three uses
The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
- בֶּחָֽרָבָ֛הbecharavahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the dry ground
- בֶּחָ֣רָבָ֔הbecharavahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the dry ground
When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.
- הֶחָרָבָ֑הhecharavahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the dry ground
2 Kings
one use
And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
- בֶּחָרָבָֽה׃becharavahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the dry ground
Ezekiel
one use
I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- חָֽרָבָ֔הcharavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: dry ground
Haggai
one use
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
- הֶחָרָבָֽה׃hecharavahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the dry ground
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.