charav · dry up; lay waste

What it means

charav (חָרַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dry up; lay waste”.

Dry up, be dry; be laid waste, made desolate.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be left without water, a river, a sea or a spring.
2. To be left in ruins.
3. To destroy one another, to kill each other.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• laid waste ×6
• will be laid waste ×5
• ruined ×4
• I will dry up ×3
• dried up ×3
• been dried ×2
• dry up ×2
• have surely fought among themselves ×2
• lies in ruins ×2
• slay ×2
• others ×11

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Judges×3
• 2 Kings×4
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×12
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×8
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 8:13

  And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and look, the face of the ground had dried.

• Judges 16:7

  And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any human being.”

• Judges 16:8

  And the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

• Judges 16:24

  And the people saw him and praised their god, for they said, “Our god has given into our hand our enemy, and the one who laid waste our land and who multiplied our dead.”

• 2 Kings 3:23

  They said, “This is blood! The kings have surely fought among themselves and struck one another. Now to the plunder, Moab!”

• 2 Kings 19:17

  Truly, YHWH, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their land,

• 2 Kings 19:24

  I have dug and drunk foreign waters, and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.’

• Nehemiah 2:3

  And I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the house of the tombs of my fathers, lies in ruins, and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

• Nehemiah 2:17

  Then I said to them, “You see the trouble that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been set on fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be a reproach.”

• Job 14:11

  Waters go away from the sea, and a river is drained and dries up;

• Psalms 106:9

  And he rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up; and he led them through the depths as through the wilderness.

• Isaiah 19:5

  And the waters of the sea will fail, and the river will be parched and dry up.

• Isaiah 19:6

  And the rivers will stink; the canals of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reed and rush will wither.

• Isaiah 34:10

  Night and day it will not be quenched; forever its smoke will rise; from generation to generation it will lie waste; for ever and ever no one will pass through it.

• Isaiah 37:18

  Truly, YHWH, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands and their land,

• Isaiah 37:25

  I have dug and drunk waters, and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.’

• Isaiah 42:15

  I will lay waste mountains and hills, and all their vegetation I will dry up; and I will turn rivers into coastlands, and the pools I will dry up.

• Isaiah 44:27

  who says to the deep, ‘Be dry, and your rivers I will dry up’;

• Isaiah 49:17

  Your children hurry; those who tear you down and those who lay you waste will go out from you.

• Isaiah 50:2

  Why did I come, and there was no one; I called, and there was no one to answer? Is my hand really too short to ransom? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.

• Isaiah 51:10

  Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a road for the redeemed to cross over?

• Isaiah 60:12

  For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you will perish, and the nations will be utterly laid waste.

• Jeremiah 2:12

  Be appalled, heavens, at this, and shudder, be utterly desolate, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 26:9

  Why have you prophesied in the name of YHWH, saying, ‘Like Shiloh this house will be, and this city will be laid waste, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 50:21

  Against the land of Merathaim, go up against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod; slay and devote them to destruction after them, declares YHWH, and do according to all that I have commanded you.

• Jeremiah 50:27

  Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter! Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

• Jeremiah 51:36

  Therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am pleading your cause, and I will avenge your vengeance; and I will dry up her sea, and make dry her spring.

• Ezekiel 6:6

  In all your dwelling places the cities will be laid waste, and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and be guilty, and your idols will be broken and cease, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out.

• Ezekiel 12:20

  And the inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation; and you will know that I am YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 19:7

  And he knew his widows, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and all that fills it, at the sound of his roaring.

• Ezekiel 26:2

  “Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, ‘Aha! Broken are the doors of the peoples; it has turned to me; I will be filled, she is ruined,’

• Ezekiel 26:19

  For thus says Adonai YHWH: When I make you a ruined city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up over you the deep and the many waters cover you,

• Ezekiel 29:12

  And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands, and her cities, in the midst of ruined cities, will be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them through the lands.

• Ezekiel 30:7

  And they will be desolate in the midst of desolated lands, and its cities in the midst of ruined cities will be.

• Hosea 13:15

  Though he is fruitful among brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of YHWH rising from the wilderness; and his spring will dry up, and his fountain will be parched; it will plunder the treasure of every precious object.

• Amos 7:9

  And the high places of Isaac will be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

• Nahum 1:4

  He rebukes the sea and dries it up, and all the rivers he drains; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the bloom of Lebanon withers.

• Zephaniah 3:6

  “I have cut off nations; their corners are desolate; I have laid waste their streets, with no one passing through; their cities are destroyed, without a man, without an inhabitant.

And 4 more times.