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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 - and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - for servants we are, and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14 - With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 - I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10 - And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26 - Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her wastes I raise up,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21 - And they have not thirsted in waste places, He hath caused them to go on, Waters from a rock he hath caused to flow to them, Yea, he cleaveth a rock, and flow do waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 - Because thy wastes, and thy desolate places, And the land of thy ruins, Surely now are straitened because of inhabitants, And far off have been those consuming thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9 - Break forth, sing together, O wastes of Jerusalem, For Jehovah hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12 - And they have built out of thee the wastes of old, The foundations of many generations thou raisest up, And one calleth thee, 'Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to rest in.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 64:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:11 - Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - And I have caused to cease from cities of Judah, And from streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, For the land doth become a desolation!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5 - And if ye do not hear these words, By myself I have sworn -- an affirmation of Jehovah, That this house is for a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - And all this land hath been for a waste, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - 'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Ye -- ye have seen all the evil that I have brought in on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah, and lo, they are a waste this day, and there is none dwelling in them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - and poured out is My fury, and Mine anger, and it burneth in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and they are for a waste, for a desolation, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - And Jehovah is not able any more to accept you, because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations that ye have done, and your land is for a waste, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, without inhabitant, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For, by Myself, I have sworn, An affirmation of Jehovah, That for a desolation, for a reproach, For a waste, and for a reviling -- is Bozrah, And all her cities are for wastes age-during.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that are round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - As foxes in the wastes, Thy prophets, O Israel, have been.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have stretched out My hand against Edom, And I have cut off from it man and beast, And given it up -- a waste, from Teman even to Dedan, By sword they do fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - And I have caused thee to go down, With those going down to the pit, Unto the people of old, And I have caused thee to dwell in the land, The lower parts -- in wastes of old, With those going down to the pit, So that thou art not inhabited, And I have given beauty in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - And the land of Egypt hath been for a desolation and a waste, And they have known that I am Jehovah. Because he said: The flood is mine, and I made it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - Therefore, lo, I am against thee, and against thy floods, And have given the land of Egypt for wastes, A waste, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene, And unto the border of Cush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - 'Son of man, the inhabitants of these wastes on the ground of Israel are speaking, saying: Alone hath been Abraham -- and he possesseth the land, and we are many -- to us hath the land been given for a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - Thus dost thou say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I live -- do not they who are in the wastes by the sword fall? And they who are on the face of the field, To the beast I have given for food, And they who are in strongholds and in caves by pestilence die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - Therefore, O mountains of Israel, Hear a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah, to mountains, and to hills, To streams, and to valleys, And to wastes that are desolate, And to cities that are forsaken, That have been for a prey, And for a scorn, to the remnant of the nations who are round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - And I have multiplied on you men, All the house of Israel -- all of it, And the cities have been inhabited, And the wastes are built.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of My cleansing you from all your iniquities, I have caused the cities to be inhabited, And the wastes have been built,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8 - After many days thou art appointed, In the latter end of the years thou comest in unto a land brought back from sword, A people gathered out of many peoples, Upon mountains of Israel, That have been for a perpetual waste, And it from the peoples hath been brought out, And dwelt safely have all of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - To take a spoil, and to take a prey, To turn back thy hand on inhabited wastes, And on a people gathered out of nations, Making cattle and substance, Dwelling on a high part of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, have understood by books the number of the years, (in that a word of Jehovah hath been unto Jeremiah the prophet,) concerning the fulfilling of the wastes of Jerusalem -- seventy years;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4 - Because Edom saith, 'We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And men have called to them, 'O region of wickedness,' 'O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'
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