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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 Box Lev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us to restore the temple of our God and to raise up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14 - with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - The enemy's cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 - I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10 - May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26 - who fulfills the oracles of his prophetic servants and brings to pass the announcements of his messengers, who says about Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited,' and about the towns of Judah, 'They will be rebuilt, her ruins I will raise up,'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21 - They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 - Yes, your land lies in ruins; it is desolate and devastated. But now you will be too small to hold your residents, and those who devoured you will be far away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - Certainly the LORD will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the Garden of the LORD. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9 - In unison give a joyful shout, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD consoles his people; he protects Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12 - Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called, 'The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - They will rebuild the perpetual ruins and restore the places that were desolate; they will reestablish the ruined cities, the places that have been desolate since ancient times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:11 - Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5 - But, if you do not obey these commands, I solemnly swear that this palace will become a pile of rubble. I, the LORD, affirm it!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - So I, the LORD, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - Finally the LORD could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For I solemnly swear," says the LORD, "that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever."

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - "I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - Your prophets have become like jackals among the ruins, O Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - So this is what the sovereign LORD says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said, "The Nile is mine and I made it,"

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - I am against you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border with Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - "Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - "This is what you must say to them, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the sovereign LORD: This is what the sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, and to the desolate ruins and the abandoned cities that have become prey and an object of derision to the rest of the nations round about -

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - I will multiply your people - the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - "'This is what the sovereign LORD says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8 - After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to loot and plunder, to attack the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center of the earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books that, according to the word of the LORD disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem were seventy in number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4 - Edom says, "Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places." So the LORD who rules over all responds, "They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as the land of evil, the people with whom the LORD is permanently displeased.
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