chrba · ruin, desolate place

What it means

chrba (חׇרְבָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ruin, desolate place”.

A ruin, a destroyed and deserted place.

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. What is left of a razed city, which no one lives in.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• ruins ×25
• ruin ×16
• desolate places ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• Ezra×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×10
• Ezekiel×14
• Daniel×1
• Malachi×1

• Leviticus 26:31

  And I will make your cities a ruin and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will not smell your pleasing aroma.

• Leviticus 26:33

  And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you; and your land will be a desolation, and your cities will be a ruin.

• Ezra 9:9

  For we are slaves, yet in our servitude our Elohim has not forsaken us, but he extended to us loyal love before the kings of Persia, to give us life, to raise up the house of our Elohim and to set up its ruins, and to give us a fence in Judah and in Jerusalem.

• Job 3:14

  with kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves,

• Psalms 9:6

  The enemy has come to an end: ruins forever; cities you have uprooted; has perished their memory, theirs.

• Psalms 102:6

  I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the ruins.

• Psalms 109:10

  And let his sons wander about and beg, and let them seek from their ruins.

• Isaiah 5:17

  And lambs will graze as in their pasture, and the ruins of the fat ones resident aliens will eat.

• Isaiah 44:26

  who confirms the word of his servant, and the counsel of his messengers fulfills; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and her ruins I will raise up’;

• Isaiah 48:21

  And they did not thirst when he led them through the desolate places; water from the rock he made flow for them; and he split the rock, and the water flowed.

• Isaiah 49:19

  For your ruins and your desolate places and the land of your destruction surely now will be too narrow for the inhabitant, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

• Isaiah 51:3

  For YHWH will comfort Zion, he will comfort all her ruins; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her Arabah like the garden of YHWH; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of song.

• Isaiah 52:9

  Break forth, shout for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem; for YHWH has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 58:12

  And those from you will build the ancient ruins; the foundations of generation after generation you will raise up; and you will be called ‘Repairer of breaches, restorer of paths to live in.’

• Isaiah 61:4

  And they will build the ancient ruins; the former desolations they will raise up; and they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of generation after generation.

• Isaiah 64:11

  The house of our holiness and of our beauty, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our desirable things have become a ruin.

• Jeremiah 7:34

  And I will make 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 ruin.

• Jeremiah 22:5

  But if you do not hear these words, by myself I have sworn, declares YHWH, that this house will become a ruin.’”

• Jeremiah 25:9

  look, I am sending and will take all the clans of the north, declares YHWH, and I am sending to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror and a hissing and eternal ruins.

• Jeremiah 25:11

  And this whole land will become a ruin and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

• Jeremiah 25:18

  Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings, its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

• Jeremiah 27:17

  Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a ruin?

• Jeremiah 44:2

  “Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah; and look, they are a ruin this day, and no one lives in them,

• Jeremiah 44:6

  So my fury and my anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a ruin, a desolation, as it is this day.

• Jeremiah 44:22

  And YHWH could no longer bear it because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations that you committed; so your land has become a ruin and a horror and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

• Jeremiah 49:13

  For by myself I have sworn, declares YHWH, that Bozrah will become a horror, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all her cities will become eternal ruins.

• Ezekiel 5:14

  And I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

• Ezekiel 13:4

  Like foxes among the ruins your prophets, Israel, have been.

• Ezekiel 25:13

  therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it human being and beast, and I will make it a ruin; from Teman and to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

• Ezekiel 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 dwell in the land of the depths, like the ruins of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; and I will set a jewel in the land of the living.

• Ezekiel 29:9

  And the land of Egypt will become a desolation and a ruin, and they will know that I am YHWH; because he said, “The Nile is mine, and I made it,”

• Ezekiel 29:10

  therefore look, I am against you and against your channels, and I will make the land of Egypt into ruins of dryness, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene and as far as the border of Cush.

• Ezekiel 33:24

  “Son of man, the inhabitants of these ruins on the ground of Israel are saying thus: ‘Abraham was one, and he possessed the land; and we are many; to us the land has been given as a possession.’

• Ezekiel 33:27

  Thus you will say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: As I live, surely those who are in the ruins by the sword will fall, and whoever is on the face of the field, to the animals I have given him to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves by pestilence will die.

• Ezekiel 35:4

  Your cities I will make a ruin, and you will become a desolation, and you will know that I am YHWH.

• Ezekiel 36:4

  therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai YHWH: Thus says Adonai YHWH to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, and to the desolate ruins and to the abandoned cities that have become booty and mockery to the rest of the nations that are all around,

• Ezekiel 36:10

  And I will multiply on you human beings, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited, and the ruins will be built.

• Ezekiel 36:33

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be built.

• Ezekiel 38:8

  After many days you will be summoned; at the end of the years you will come to a land restored from the sword, gathered from many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which had been a ruin continually; and it was brought out from the peoples, and they live securely, all of them.

• Ezekiel 38:12

  to take spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins now inhabited, and against a people gathered from nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who live at the navel of the earth.

And 2 more times.