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Lexicon :: Strong's H2723 - ḥārbâ

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חָרְבָּה
Transliteration
ḥārbâ
Pronunciation
khor-baw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 731d

Strong’s Definitions

חׇרְבָּה chorbâh, khor-baw'; feminine of H2721; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation:—decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H2723 in the following manner: waste (18x), desolation (8x), desolate places (4x), waste places (4x), desert (3x), desolate (3x), decayed places (1x), destructions (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H2723 in the following manner: waste (18x), desolation (8x), desolate places (4x), waste places (4x), desert (3x), desolate (3x), decayed places (1x), destructions (1x).

  1. a place laid waste, ruin, waste, desolation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חׇרְבָּה chorbâh, khor-baw'; feminine of H2721; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation:—decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
STRONGS H2723: Abbreviations
† חָרְבָּה noun feminine waste, desolation, ruin; — absolute ח׳ Leviticus 26:31 + 15 times + Ezekiel 38:8 (strike out Syriac Version Co) + Ezekiel 38:12 חרבה Greek Version of the LXX Co for חרבות; plural חֳרָבוֺת Psalm 9:7 + 11 times (Ezekiel 38:12, compare above); construct חָרְבוֺת Isaiah 5:17 + 7 times; suffix חָרְבֹתַיִךְ Isaiah 49:19; חָרְבֹתָיו Ezra 9:9; חָרְבֹתֶיהָ Isaiah 51:3; חָרְבוֺתֶיהָ Isaiah 44:26; חָרְבוֺתֵיהֶם Psalm 109:10 2 Chronicles 34:6 (compare חֶרֶב and below); (chiefly mid. and late Hebrew Isa2 + 8 times; Jeremiah + 10 times, Ezekiel + 14 times, — including Ezekiel 38:8, which strike out Co); —
1. waste, ruin, of cities of Israel Leviticus 26:31, 33 (H); Judah Isaiah 44:26; Isaiah 49:19 (|| שֹׁמְמֹת), Isaiah 58:12 (בנה), Jeremiah 25:18; Jeremiah 27:17; Jeremiah 44:2, 6; Ezekiel 5:14; ruins of Jerusalem Isaiah 52:9; Daniel 9:2; also Ezekiel 35:4; compare Malachi 1:4 (with בנה), Ezekiel 36:10 (with בנה) Ezekiel 36:33 (id.); Egypt Ezekiel 29:9, 10 (in both || שְׁמָמָה; חרבות חֹרֶב in Ezekiel 29:10); ruin of temple Ezra 9:9; ＝ruined dwellings Psalm 109:10; compare 2 Chronicles 34:6, where read perhaps בְּחָרְבֹתֵיהֶם for בּחר בתיהם (see חֶרֶב below III. חרב); Jeremiah 22:5; in general ruins (si vera lectio, see Di; object of בנה) Job 3:14; כוס ח׳ Psalm 102:7 an owl of a ruin.
2. of land: waste place amid ruins Isaiah 5:17, compare Isaiah 51:3 (|| מִדְבָּר, עֲרָבָה); land a desolation Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 44:22; Ezekiel 25:13 (Edom) Jeremiah 25:11; Isaiah 64:10 and Ezekiel 33:24, 27 (of Judah), compare Ezekiel 13:4, כְשֻׁעָלִים בח׳ simile of the prophets; הַשֹּׁמֵמוֺת הח׳ Ezekiel 36:4 (of Israel); of desolation of enemies of Israel Psalm 9:7 (לָנֶ֫צַח ח׳); עולם ח׳ ＝old ruins Isaiah 61:4 (with בנה); elsewhere perpetual ruin, desolation Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 49:13 (cities of Bosra); מעולם ה׳ Ezekiel 26:20 (simile of Tyre).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

26:31; 26:31; 26:33

2 Chronicles

34:6; 34:6

Ezra

9:9; 9:9

Job

3:14

Psalms

9:7; 9:7; 102:7; 109:10; 109:10

Isaiah

5:17; 5:17; 44:26; 44:26; 49:19; 49:19; 51:3; 51:3; 52:9; 58:12; 61:4; 64:10

Jeremiah

7:34; 22:5; 25:9; 25:11; 25:18; 27:17; 44:2; 44:6; 44:22; 49:13

Ezekiel

5:14; 13:4; 25:13; 26:20; 29:9; 29:10; 29:10; 33:24; 33:27; 35:4; 36:4; 36:10; 36:33; 38:8; 38:8; 38:12; 38:12

Daniel

9:2

Malachi

1:4

H2723

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2723 matches the Hebrew חָרְבָּה (ḥārbâ),
which occurs 42 times in 42 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savour of your sacrifices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - For we are slaves, yet in our servitude the Lord our God has not deserted us; and he has extended favour to us in the sight of the kings of the Persians, to give us a quickening, that they should raise up the house of our God, and restore the desolate places of it, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14 - with kings and councillors of the earth, who gloried in their swords;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - (LXX 9:7) The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and thou hast destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 - (LXX 101:7) I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10 - (LXX 108:10) Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26 - and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his messengers: who says to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, Ye shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21 - And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 - For thy desert and marred and ruined places shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured thee shall be removed far from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - And now I will comfort thee, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her [fn]western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9 - Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth in joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12 - And thy old waste desert places shall be built up, and thy foundations shall last through all generations; and thou shalt be called a repairer of breaches, and thou shalt cause thy paths between to be in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities, even those that had been desolate for many generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:11 - (LXX 64:10) The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - And I will destroy out of the cities of Juda, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5 - But if ye will not perform these words, by myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, that this house shall be brought to desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - (LXX 32:18) Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - (LXX 51:2) Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye have seen all the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Juda; and, behold, they are desolate without inhabitants,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - (LXX 51:6) So mine anger and my wrath dropped upon them, and was kindled in the gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - (LXX 51:22) And the Lord could no longer bear you, because of the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which ye wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - (LXX 30:7) for by myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, that thou shalt be in the midst of her an impassable land, and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be desert for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - And I will make thee desolate, and thy daughters round about thee, in the sight of every one that passes through.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - Thy prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - therefore thus saith the Lord; I will also stretch out my hand upon Idumea, and will utterly destroy out of it man and beast; and will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Thæman shall fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - and great waters shall cover thee; and I shall bring thee down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause thee to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abraam was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords, and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - and I will multiply men upon you, even all the house of Israel to the end: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate land shall be built upon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built upon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8 - He shall be prepared after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a land that is brought back from the sword, when the people are gathered from many nations against the land of Israel, which was entirely desolate: and he is come forth out of the nations, and they shall all dwell securely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremias, even seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4 - Because one will say, Idumea has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus saith the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set himself for ever.
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