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חָרָבָה

charava · dry ground

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2724 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

charava (חָרָבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dry ground”.

Dry land, solid ground.

How to say it

cha·ra·va

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. The dry ground left bare where there was water before.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • dry land ×6
  • dry ×2

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 7:22

    Everything that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils, of all that was on dry land, died.

  • Exodus 14:21

    Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and YHWH drove back the sea by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were split.

  • Joshua 3:17

    The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of YHWH stood firm on dry land in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel was crossing on dry land, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

  • Joshua 4:18

    And it came about, when the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of YHWH came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the feet of the priests were pulled up onto the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went as before over all its banks.

  • 2 Kings 2:8

    Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water, and it was divided to one side and to the other, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

  • Ezekiel 30:12

    And I will make the channels dry, and I will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make desolate the land and its fullness by the hand of strangers. I, YHWH, have spoken.

  • Haggai 2:6

    For thus says YHWH Tsevaot: ‘Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the dry land.

And 1 more times.