חָרֵב
charev · dry, ruined
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2720 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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charev (חָרֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dry, ruined”.
Dry. In other passages, in ruins, desolate.
How to say it
cha·rev
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
- Having lost its moisture: food without oil or juice.
- Abandoned, in rubble.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- desolate ×2
- dry ×2
- laid waste ×2
- ruined ×2
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 7:10
And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, each one like his brother.
- Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house full of sacrifices of strife.
- Jeremiah 33:10
Thus says YHWH: Once more there will be heard in this place, of which you are saying, ‘It is laid waste, without human being and without livestock,’ in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without human being and without inhabitant and without livestock,
- Jeremiah 33:12
Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Once more there will be in this place that is laid waste, without human being or even livestock, and in all its cities, a dwelling of shepherds who make the flock lie down.
- Ezekiel 36:35
And they will say, “This land, the desolate one, has become like the garden of Eden; and the ruined cities, and the desolate and the torn down, are fortified and inhabited.”
- Ezekiel 36:38
Like the flock of holy things, like the flock of Jerusalem at her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be full of a flock of human beings; and they will know that I am YHWH.’”
- Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you, you yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies desolate?
- Haggai 1:9
You looked for much, and look, it came to little; and you brought it home, and I blew on it. Why? declares YHWH Tsevaot. Because of my house, which lies desolate, while you run, each to his own house.