chorev · heat, drought; desolation

What it means

chorev (חֹרֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heat, drought; desolation”.

Dry heat, drought; also desolation, ruin.

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. A time without rain, when the land is left without water.
2. The burning sun of the day.
3. Devastated places left empty and dry.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• heat ×7
• dryness ×5
• drought ×2
• ruined ×1
• waste ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×3
• Job×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 31:40

  This is how I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• Judges 6:37

  look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and on all the land dryness, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• Judges 6:39

  Gideon said to Elohim, “Do not let your anger burn against me, and let me speak just this time. Please let me test just this time with the fleece: please let there be dryness on the fleece alone, and on all the land let there be dew.”

• Judges 6:40

  Elohim did so that night: there was dryness on the fleece alone, and on all the land there was dew.

• Job 30:30

  My skin turns black on me, and my bones burn with heat.

• Isaiah 4:6

  And there will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a hiding place from the downpour and from the rain.

• Isaiah 25:4

  For you have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the downpour, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the tyrants is like a downpour against a wall.

• Isaiah 25:5

  Like heat in a dry land, the uproar of strangers you subdue; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the tyrants is brought low.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 36:30

  Therefore thus says YHWH concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will not have one to sit on the throne of David, and his corpse will be thrown out to the heat by day and to the frost by night.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 50:38

  A drought upon her waters, and they will dry up! For it is a land of carved images, and over terrors they go mad.

• 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.

• Zephaniah 2:14

  And flocks will lie down in her midst, every animal of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge in her capitals; a voice will sing in the window; dryness will be on the threshold; for her cedar work has been laid bare.

• Haggai 1:11

  And I called for a drought on the land and on the mountains, and on the grain and on the new wine and on the oil, and on what the ground brings forth, and on human beings and on livestock, and on all the labor of their hands.”

And 1 more times.