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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
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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - ‘And I will give your cities over as a waste H2723 and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - ‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste H2723.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - “For we are slaves; yet in our slavery our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us before the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its waste H2723 places H2723, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14 -

With kings and with counselors of the earth,

Who rebuilt waste H2723 places H2723 for themselves,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 -

He

[fn]The enemy has come to an end in perpetual [fn]ruins H2723,

And You have uprooted the cities;

The very memory of them has perished.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 -

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness;

I have become like an owl of the waste H2723 places H2723.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10 -

Let his sons wander aimlessly and beg;

And let them search for food [fn]from their ruined H2723 homes H2723.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 -

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,

And sojourners will eat in the waste H2723 places H2723 of the [fn]wealthy.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26 -

Confirming the word of His servant

And the counsel of His messengers He will complete

And being the One who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited!’

And of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built.’

And I will raise up her waste H2723 places H2723 again.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21 -

And they did not thirst when He led them through the waste H2723 places H2723.

He made the water flow out of the rock for them;

He split the rock, and the water gushed forth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 -

“For your [fn]devastated H2723 and desolate places and your destroyed land

Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants,

And those who swallowed you will be far away.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 -

Indeed, Yahweh will comfort Zion;

He will comfort all her waste H2723 places H2723.

And her wilderness He will make like Eden,

And her desert like the garden of Yahweh;

Joy and gladness will be found in her,

Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9 -

Break forth, shout joyfully together,

You waste H2723 places H2723 of Jerusalem;

For Yahweh has comforted His people;

He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12 -

“Those from among you will rebuild the ancient waste H2723 places H2723;

You will raise up the foundations of past generation upon generation;

And you will be called the repairer of the breach,

The restorer of the paths for one to inhabit.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 -

Then they will rebuild the ancient waste H2723 places H2723;

They will raise up the former desolations;

And they will make new the ruined cities,

The desolations from generation to generation.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:11 -

Our holy and glorious house,

Where our fathers praised You,

Has been burned by fire;

And all our precious things have become a waste H2723 place H2723.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - “Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a waste H2723 place H2723.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5 - “But if you will not obey these words, I swear by Myself,” declares Yahweh, “that this house will become a waste H2723 place H2723.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [fn]devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste H2723 place H2723.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - ‘This whole land will be a waste H2723 place H2723 and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a waste H2723 place H2723, an object of horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - “Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a waste H2723 place H2723?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a waste H2723 place H2723 and no one lives in them
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - ‘Therefore My wrath and My anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become a waste H2723 place H2723 and a desolation as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - “So Yahweh was no longer able to bear it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have done; thus your land has become a waste H2723 place H2723, an object of horror, and an imprecation, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - “For I have sworn by Myself,” declares Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin, and an imprecation; and all its cities will become perpetual [fn]ruins H2723.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - ‘Moreover, I will make you a [fn]ruin H2723 and a reproach among the nations which are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - “O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among waste H2723 places H2723.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste H2723; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you inhabit the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste H2723 places H2723, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not [fn]be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - “The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste H2723. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

Because [fn]you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - therefore, behold, I am against you and against your canals of the Nile, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of [fn]Ethiopia.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - “Son of man, they who inhabit these waste H2723 places H2723 in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Thus you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “As I live, surely those who are in the waste H2723 places H2723 will fall by the sword, and whoever is in the [fn]open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of pestilence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 -

“I will lay waste H2723 your cities,

And you will become a desolation.

Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - ‘Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of Lord Yahweh. Thus says Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes H2723 and to the forsaken cities which have become plunder and objects of scoffing to the rest of the nations which are round about,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - ‘I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited, and the waste H2723 places H2723 will be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste H2723 places H2723 will be rebuilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8 - “After many days you will be mustered; in the last years you will come into the land that is [fn]restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste H2723; but [fn]its people were brought out from the peoples, and they are living securely, all of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste H2723 places H2723, which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and property, who live at the [fn]center of the world.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, discerned in the books the number of the years concerning which the word of [fn]Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet for the fulfillment of the laying H2723 waste H2723 of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4 - Though Edom says, “We have been demolished, but we will [fn]return and build up the waste H2723 places H2723”; thus says Yahweh of hosts, “They may build, but I will pull down; and men will call them a [fn]territory of wickedness, and the people [fn]toward whom Yahweh is indignant forever.”
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