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Lexicon :: Strong's H2723 - ḥārbâ

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חָרְבָּה
Transliteration
ḥārbâ
Pronunciation
khor-baw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 731d

Strong’s Definitions

חׇרְבָּה chorbâh, khor-baw'; feminine of H2721; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation:—decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H2723 in the following manner: waste (18x), desolation (8x), desolate places (4x), waste places (4x), desert (3x), desolate (3x), decayed places (1x), destructions (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H2723 in the following manner: waste (18x), desolation (8x), desolate places (4x), waste places (4x), desert (3x), desolate (3x), decayed places (1x), destructions (1x).

  1. a place laid waste, ruin, waste, desolation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חׇרְבָּה chorbâh, khor-baw'; feminine of H2721; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation:—decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
STRONGS H2723: Abbreviations
† חָרְבָּה noun feminine waste, desolation, ruin; — absolute ח׳ Leviticus 26:31 + 15 times + Ezekiel 38:8 (strike out Syriac Version Co) + Ezekiel 38:12 חרבה Greek Version of the LXX Co for חרבות; plural חֳרָבוֺת Psalm 9:7 + 11 times (Ezekiel 38:12, compare above); construct חָרְבוֺת Isaiah 5:17 + 7 times; suffix חָרְבֹתַיִךְ Isaiah 49:19; חָרְבֹתָיו Ezra 9:9; חָרְבֹתֶיהָ Isaiah 51:3; חָרְבוֺתֶיהָ Isaiah 44:26; חָרְבוֺתֵיהֶם Psalm 109:10 2 Chronicles 34:6 (compare חֶרֶב and below); (chiefly mid. and late Hebrew Isa2 + 8 times; Jeremiah + 10 times, Ezekiel + 14 times, — including Ezekiel 38:8, which strike out Co); —
1. waste, ruin, of cities of Israel Leviticus 26:31, 33 (H); Judah Isaiah 44:26; Isaiah 49:19 (|| שֹׁמְמֹת), Isaiah 58:12 (בנה), Jeremiah 25:18; Jeremiah 27:17; Jeremiah 44:2, 6; Ezekiel 5:14; ruins of Jerusalem Isaiah 52:9; Daniel 9:2; also Ezekiel 35:4; compare Malachi 1:4 (with בנה), Ezekiel 36:10 (with בנה) Ezekiel 36:33 (id.); Egypt Ezekiel 29:9, 10 (in both || שְׁמָמָה; חרבות חֹרֶב in Ezekiel 29:10); ruin of temple Ezra 9:9; ＝ruined dwellings Psalm 109:10; compare 2 Chronicles 34:6, where read perhaps בְּחָרְבֹתֵיהֶם for בּחר בתיהם (see חֶרֶב below III. חרב); Jeremiah 22:5; in general ruins (si vera lectio, see Di; object of בנה) Job 3:14; כוס ח׳ Psalm 102:7 an owl of a ruin.
2. of land: waste place amid ruins Isaiah 5:17, compare Isaiah 51:3 (|| מִדְבָּר, עֲרָבָה); land a desolation Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 44:22; Ezekiel 25:13 (Edom) Jeremiah 25:11; Isaiah 64:10 and Ezekiel 33:24, 27 (of Judah), compare Ezekiel 13:4, כְשֻׁעָלִים בח׳ simile of the prophets; הַשֹּׁמֵמוֺת הח׳ Ezekiel 36:4 (of Israel); of desolation of enemies of Israel Psalm 9:7 (לָנֶ֫צַח ח׳); עולם ח׳ ＝old ruins Isaiah 61:4 (with בנה); elsewhere perpetual ruin, desolation Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 49:13 (cities of Bosra); מעולם ה׳ Ezekiel 26:20 (simile of Tyre).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

26:31; 26:31; 26:33

2 Chronicles

34:6; 34:6

Ezra

9:9; 9:9

Job

3:14

Psalms

9:7; 9:7; 102:7; 109:10; 109:10

Isaiah

5:17; 5:17; 44:26; 44:26; 49:19; 49:19; 51:3; 51:3; 52:9; 58:12; 61:4; 64:10

Jeremiah

7:34; 22:5; 25:9; 25:11; 25:18; 27:17; 44:2; 44:6; 44:22; 49:13

Ezekiel

5:14; 13:4; 25:13; 26:20; 29:9; 29:10; 29:10; 33:24; 33:27; 35:4; 36:4; 36:10; 36:33; 38:8; 38:8; 38:12; 38:12

Daniel

9:2

Malachi

1:4

H2723

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2723 matches the Hebrew חָרְבָּה (ḥārbâ),
which occurs 42 times in 42 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14 - With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:6 - You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 - I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10 - Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26 - Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21 - They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 - For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9 - Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12 - And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:11 - Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5 - But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You have seen all the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah; and now, this day they are waste and unpeopled;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:13 - For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:4 - I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:10 - And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:8 - After a long time you will get your orders: in the last years you will come into the land which has been given back from the sword, which has been got together out of a great number of peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have ever been a waste: but it has been taken out from the peoples and they will be living, all of them, without fear of danger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:4 - Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.
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