חָרֵב charev
Hebrew word for “to destroy” · Strong’s H2717 · used 40 times in 36 verses
Meaning
1) to be waste, lay waste, make desolate, be desolate, be in ruins;
Senses in the lexicon
- to destroy (20)
- to dry (16)
- to slay (4)
How it is translated
Glosses given for charev in context, with how often each is used:
- dried up 4
- have made desolate 3
- will be waste 3
- will be desolate 2
- certainly 2
- desolate 2
- laid waste 2
- may dry up 2
- dries up 2
- will become dry 2
- kill 2
- desolator 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 12 | 0.7 | |
| Ezekiel | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Jeremiah | 5 | 0.2 | |
| 2 Kings | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Judges | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Nahum | 1 | 1.8 | |
| Zephaniah | 1 | 1.3 |
Chapters where it is used most
Judges 16 (3), 2 Kings 19 (2), Isaiah 19 (2), Isaiah 37 (2), Jeremiah 50 (2), Ezekiel 26 (2), Genesis 8 (1), 2 Kings 3 (1), Job 14 (1), Psalms 106 (1)
Forms
- חרבו 6
- יחרבו 3
- החריבו 2
- תחרב 2
- אחריב 2
- חרב 2
- תחרבנה 2
- החריב 2
- ואחרב 2
- יחרב 2
Words used with it
Words that share verses with charev more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָבֵשׁ yavesh “to wither” 7
- נָהָר nahar “river” 7
- מַי mayim “water” 8
- יָם yam “sea” 7
- שָׁמֵם shamem “be desolate” 5
- מָצוֹר matsor “Egypt” 3
- עִיר ir “city” 8
- תְּהוֹם tehom “abyss” 3
- יְאֹר yeor “Nile” 3
- יָשַׁם yasham “be desolate” 2
- קָרַר qarar “to destroy” 2
- עָלָה alah “to ascend” 5
Key verses
The verses using charev that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Psalms 106:9 — He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
- Isaiah 42:15 — I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
- Isaiah 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to…
- Isaiah 60:12 — For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
- Jeremiah 26:9 — Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the…
- Jeremiah 50:21 — Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do…
- Jeremiah 50:27 — Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 51:36 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
- Ezekiel 6:6 — In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and…
- Ezekiel 26:2 — Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished,…
- Hosea 13:15 — Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and…
- Nahum 1:4 — He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
See all 36 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.