חׇרְבָּה chorbah

Hebrew word for “desolation” · Strong’s H2723 · used 42 times in 42 verses

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Meaning

a place laid waste, ruin, waste, desolation

How it is translated

Glosses given for chorbah in context, with how often each is used:

• ruins 12
• waste places 10
• ruin 9
• desolation 5
• waste place 2
• away from ruins 1
• when in the waste places 1
• among ruins 1
• like waste places 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 25 (3), Jeremiah 44 (3), Ezekiel 36 (3), Leviticus 26 (2), Ezekiel 29 (2), Ezekiel 33 (2), Ezekiel 38 (2), Ezra 9 (1), Job 3 (1), Psalms 9 (1)

Forms

• לחרבה 9
• חרבות 8
• חרבה 6
• בחרבות 3
• לחרבות 3
• ולחרבות 2
• החרבות 2
• חרבתיו 1
• מחרבותיהם 1
• וחרבות 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chorbah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עִיר ir “city” 15
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 12
• שַׁמָּה shammah “horror” 5
• שְׁמָמָה shemamah “devastation” 5
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 7
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 8
• עוֹלָם olam “forever” 6
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 6
• כֹּה koh “thus” 6
• חֹרֶב chorev “drought” 3
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 6
• קְלָלָה qelalah “curse” 3

Key verses

The verses using chorbah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 26:31 — And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
• Leviticus 26:33 — And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
• Isaiah 44:26 — That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of…
• Isaiah 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;…
• Isaiah 52:9 — Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 25:9 — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against…
• Jeremiah 25:18 — To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a…
• Jeremiah 44:22 — So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a…
• Ezekiel 25:13 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman;…
• Ezekiel 38:8 — After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many…
• Daniel 9:2 — In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would…
• Malachi 1:4 — Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw…

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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.