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Lexicon :: Strong's H2721 - ḥōreḇ

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חֹרֶב
Transliteration
ḥōreḇ
Pronunciation
kho'-reb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A collaterally form of חֶרֶב (H2719)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 731b

Strong’s Definitions

חֹרֶב chôreb, kho'-reb; a collaterally form of H2719; drought or desolation:—desolation, drought, dry, heat, × utterly, waste.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H2721 in the following manner: heat (6x), dry (3x), drought (3x), waste (2x), desolation (1x), utterly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H2721 in the following manner: heat (6x), dry (3x), drought (3x), waste (2x), desolation (1x), utterly (1x).

  1. dryness, desolation, drought, heat

    1. dryness

    2. drought

    3. parching heat

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֹרֶב chôreb, kho'-reb; a collaterally form of H2719; drought or desolation:—desolation, drought, dry, heat, × utterly, waste.
STRONGS H2721: Abbreviations
† I. חֹ֫רֶב noun masculineGenesis 31:40 dryness, drought, heat, absolute ח׳ Genesis 31:40 + 11 times + Deuteronomy 28:22 (for MT חֶרֶב; see Di, followed by Vulgate; Greek Version of the LXX and LXX of Lucian (Lag.) omitted); —
1.dryness Judges 6:37, 39, 40 (all of absence of dew); Jeremiah 50:38 (|| יָבֵשׁ); so read also Zechariah 11:17 (for MT חֶרֶב, see Zechariah 11:17b and StaZAW i. 1881, 29), a drying up upon his arm (i.e. a withering) and upon his right eye.
2. drought Haggai 1:11 + Deuteronomy 28:22 see above.
3. parching heat (of sun) Genesis 31:40 (opposed to קֶ֫רַח), Jeremiah 36:30 (opposed to id.); Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 25:4, 5 (twice in verse); of fever Job 30:30.

† II. חֹ֫רֶב noun [masculine] desolation; — עָרֵי ח׳ Isaiah 61:4 cities of desolation (|| שֹׁמֲמוֺת, and, in Isaiah 61:4a, חָרְבוֺת); compare Zephaniah 2:14 (but read עֹרֵב, Greek Version of the LXX We and others); Jeremiah 49:13, and מִצְרַיִם חָרְבוֺת ח׳ Ezekiel 29:10 Egypt shall be wastes of desolation (but Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Co wastes of the sword, חֶרֶב for חֹרֶב); + Ezekiel 38:8 Co, who reads מֵחֹרֶב (or מֵחָרְבָּה).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:40; 31:40; 31:40

Deuteronomy

28:22; 28:22

Judges

6:37; 6:39; 6:40

Job

30:30

Isaiah

4:6; 25:4; 25:5; 61:4; 61:4

Jeremiah

36:30; 49:13; 50:38

Ezekiel

29:10; 38:8

Zephaniah

2:14

Haggai

1:11

Zechariah

11:17; 11:17

H2721

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2721 matches the Hebrew חֹרֶב (ḥōreḇ),
which occurs 16 times in 15 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:40 - “This was my situation: by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and [fn]I could not sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:37 - behold, I will put a fleece of [freshly sheared] wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and it is dry on all the ground [around it], then I will know that You will rescue Israel through me, as You have said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let your anger burn against me, so that I may speak once more. Please let me make a test once more with the fleece; now let only the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on all the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:40 - God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and there was dew on all the ground [around it].

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30 -

“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,

And my bones are burned with fever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6 - And there will be a pavilion for shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and a shelter from the storm and the rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4 -

For You have been a stronghold for the helpless,

A stronghold for the poor in his distress,

A shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat;

For the breath of tyrants

Is like a rainstorm against a wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:5 -

Like heat in a dry land, You will subdue the noise of foreigners [rejoicing over their enemies];

Like heat in the shadow of a cloud, the song of the tyrants is [fn]silenced.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 -

Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins,

They will raise up and restore the former desolations;

And they will renew the ruined cities,

The desolations (deserted settlements) of many generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:30 - ‘Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, “[fn]He shall have no heir to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be thrown out to the heat of the day and to the frost of the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - “For I have sworn [an oath] by Myself,” says the LORD, “that [fn]Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin, and a curse; and all its cities will become [fn]perpetual ruins.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:38 -

“A drought on her waters, and they will dry up!

For it is a land of [worthless] idols,

And they are mad over fearsome idols [those objects of terror in which they foolishly trust].

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - behold (hear this), therefore, I am against you and against your rivers (the Nile, its tributaries), and I will make the land of Egypt a complete waste and a desolation, from [northern] Migdol to [southern] [fn]Syene, even as far as the border of Ethiopia (Cush).

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:14 -

Flocks will lie down in her midst,

All the animals which range in herds;

Both the pelican and the short-eared owl

Will roost on the top of Nineveh’s pillars.

Birds will sing in the window,

Desolation will be on the threshold;

For He has uncovered the cedar paneling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:11 - “I called for a drought on the land and the hill country, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.”
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