Help QuickNav Adv. Options
CSB

CSB

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H2721 - ḥōreḇ

Choose a new font size and typeface
חֹרֶב
Transliteration
ḥōreḇ
Pronunciation
kho'-reb
Listen
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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:40 -

“There I was ​— ​the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:37 -

“I will put a wool fleece here on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, I will know that you will deliver Israel by me, as you said.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 -

Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:40 -

That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30 -

My skin blackens and flakes off,[fn]

and my bones burn with fever.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6 -

and there will be a shelter for shade from heat by day and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:4 -

For you have been a stronghold for the poor person,

a stronghold for the needy in his distress,

a refuge from storms and a shade from heat.

When the breath of the violent

is like a storm against a wall,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:5 -

like heat in a dry land,

you will subdue the uproar of barbarians.

As the shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day,

so he will silence the song of the violent.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 -

They will rebuild the ancient ruins;

they will restore the former devastations;

they will renew the ruined cities,

the devastations of many generations.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:30 -

Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his corpse will be thrown out to be exposed to the heat of day and the frost of night.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 -

“For by myself I have sworn” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“Bozrah[fn] will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and an example for cursing, and all its surrounding cities will become ruins forever.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:38 -

A drought will come on her waters,

and they will be dried up.

For it is a land of carved images,

and they go mad because of terrifying things.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 -

therefore, I am against you and your Nile. I will turn the land of Egypt into ruins, a desolate waste from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:14 -

Herds will lie down in the middle of it,

every kind of wild animal.[fn]

Both eagle owls[fn] and herons[fn]

will roost in the capitals of its pillars.

Their calls will sound[fn] from the window,

but devastation[fn] will be on the threshold,

for he will expose the cedar work.[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hag 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:11 -

“I have summoned a drought

on the fields and the hills,

on the grain, new wine, fresh oil,

and whatever the ground yields,

on people and animals,

and on all that your hands produce.”

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
CSB
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
CSB
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.