חָרָבָה
chârâbâh · H2724 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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dry land
Land that is not covered by water
ExamplesGenesis 7:22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Exodus 14:21 Then Moses reached out with his hand over the sea; and the LORD swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.
Joshua 3:17 And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָעַשׁto tremble 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 7
- אֵלto, toward 2
- לto/for 2
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- ξηρός xērós · G3584 · dry, withered, paralyzed
- Greek ξηρός directly translates the Hebrew dry-ground/dry-land sense, covering both the substantival usage (dry land) and adjectival (dried up, withered) applications of the root concept.
- ἔρημος érēmos · G2048 · uninhabited, deserted, desert
- ἔρημος (érēmos, G2048) ἔρημος renders חָרָבָה (chârâbâh, H2724) חָרָבָה when the Hebrew emphasizes the dry/desolate state of uninhabited land, with the Greek term extending to the broader wilderness/desert semantic field beyond mere dryness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Land001002002
- The word denotes dry ground or dry land, as in Genesis 7:22's and Exodus 14:21's references to dry land distinguished from water.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2724. charabah חָֽרָבָה noun feminine dry ground; — absolute ׳ח Gen 7:22 Gen 7:7t.;…
חָֽרָבָה noun feminine dry ground; — absolute ׳ח Gen 7:22 Gen 7:7t.; opposed to הַיָּם Exo 14:21 (J), Hag 2:6; compare Gen 7:22 (J); opposed to water of Jordan Jos 3:17 (twice in verse) (J), Jos 4:18 (E), 2Ki 2:8; of Nile-arms ח יְאֹרִים ׳וְנָתַתִּ֫י Eze 30:12.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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