H2717 · חָרַב
chârab · khaw-rab' · waste, dry
H2717 (chârab, pronounced khaw-rab') is the Hebrew word חָרַב in Strong’s dictionary: to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill. It appears 40 times in 36 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- חָרַב (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- chârab
- Pronunciation
- khaw-rab'
- Derivation
- or חֲרֵב; a primitive root;
- Definition
- to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
- Rendered in the KJV
- decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
40 occurrences in 36 verses (38 with English words of their own, 2 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “will be laid waste” ×4
- “I have dried up” ×2
- “been dried” ×2
- “have laid waste” ×2
- “Be dry” ×1
- “I have made” ×1
- “I will dry up” ×1
- “I will lay waste” ×1
By book
Genesis 1 · Judges 3 · 2 Kings 3 · Job 1 · Psalms 1 · Isaiah 11 · Jeremiah 5 · Ezekiel 7 · Hosea 1 · Amos 1 · Nahum 1 · Zephaniah 1
First 30 of 36 verses
- Genesis 8:13
- Judges 16:7
- Judges 16:8
- Judges 16:24
- 2 Kings 3:23
- 2 Kings 19:17
- 2 Kings 19:24
- Job 14:11
- Psalms 106:9
- Isaiah 19:5
- Isaiah 19:6
- Isaiah 34:10
- Isaiah 37:18
- Isaiah 37:25
- Isaiah 42:15
- Isaiah 44:27
- Isaiah 49:17
- Isaiah 50:2
- Isaiah 51:10
- Isaiah 60:12
- Jeremiah 2:12
- Jeremiah 26:9
- Jeremiah 50:21
- Jeremiah 50:27
- Jeremiah 51:36
- Ezekiel 6:6
- Ezekiel 12:20
- Ezekiel 19:7
- Ezekiel 26:2
- Ezekiel 26:19
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H2717.