חָרֵב
chârêb · H2720 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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dry
State in which food is free from moisture or liquid
ExamplesLeviticus 7:10 ‘Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to all alike.
Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it Than a house full of feasting with strife.
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desolate, waste
State in which buildings and towns have been totally destroyed, to the extent that nobody can live there anymore
ExamplesNehemiah 2:3 And I said to the king, “May the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the site of my fathers’ tombs, is desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”
Nehemiah 2:17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates have been burned by fire. Come, let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
Jeremiah 33:10 “This is what the LORD says: ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without animal,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 2
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםJerusalem 1
- עִירcity, town 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh · H3002 · dry, dried
- חָרֵב (chârêb, H2720) means "desolate, dry, waste" and יָבֵשׁ (yâbêsh, H3002) "dried (away), dry"; both denote dryness and could substitute in contexts describing dry or withered conditions.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἔρημος érēmos · G2048 · uninhabited, deserted, desert
- Greek ἔρημος renders Hebrew חָרֵב as its standard cross-linguistic equivalent for desolation/waste contexts, both denoting uninhabited or devastated places.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dry002001001021
- The word describes something as dry or parched, matching the sense of drought and desolation carried by the closely related noun of this root.
- Impact002001001024
- The word can describe a place laid waste through destructive force, matching the sense of desolation carried by this root.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2720. chareb I. [חָרֵב] adjective dry, only feminine singular חֲרֵבָה Lev 7:10 of…
I. [חָרֵב] adjective dry, only feminine singular חֲרֵבָה Lev 7:10 of meal-offering not moistened (with oil; P); חֲרֵבָה מַּתֿ Pro 17:1 a dry morsel.
II. חָרֵב adjective waste, desolate; — masculine singular absolute ׳ח Jer 33:10 Jer 33:3t.; feminine singular חֲרֵבָה Neh 2:3 Neh 2:2t.; feminine plural הֶחֳרֵבוֺת Eze 36:35, Eze 36:38 (see Köi. 241); — of a city, defined בְּהֵמָה וּמֵאֵין אָדָם מֵאֵין Jer 33:10, compare Jer 33:12; also Neh 2:3, Neh 2:17; הֶחֳרֵבוֺת הֶעָרִים Eze 36:35 (+ הַנֶּהֱרָסוֺת הַנְשַׁמּוֺת,; opposed to יָשָׁב֑וּ בְּצוּרוֺת).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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