King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H2721
Transliteration: choreb
Phonetic Spelling: (kho'-reb)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dryness, drought, heat
Meaning: dryness, drought, heat
Word Summary
choreb: dryness, drought, heat
Original Word: חֹרֶבTransliteration: choreb
Phonetic Spelling: (kho'-reb)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dryness, drought, heat
Meaning: dryness, drought, heat
Strong's Concordance
desolation, drought, dry, heat, utterly, waste A collaterally form of chereb; drought or desolation -- desolation, drought, dry, heat, X utterly, waste.
see HEBREW chereb
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2721. choreb
I. חֹ֫רֶב noun masculineGenesis 31:40 dryness, drought, heat, absolute ׳ח 31:40 11t. + Deuteronomy 28:22 (for חֶרֶב ᵑ0; see Di, followed by ᵑ9; ᵐ5 and ᵐ5L omitted); —
1 dryness Judges 6:37, 39, 40 (all of absence of dew); Jeremiah 50:38 ("" יָבֵשׁ); so read also Zechariah 11:17 (for חֶרֶב ᵑ0, see vb and StaZAW i. 1881, 29), a drying up upon his arm (i.e. a withering) and upon his right eye.
2 drought Haggai 1:11 + Deuteronomy 28:22 see above
3 parching heat (of sun) Genesis 31:40 (opposed to קֶ֫רַח), Jeremiah 36:30 (opposed to id.); Isaiah 4:6; 25:4-5, (twice in verse); of fever Job 30:30.
II. חֹ֫רֶב noun [masculine] desolation; — ח ׳עָרֵי Isaiah 61:4 cities of desolation ("" שֹׁמֲמוֺת, and, in va, חָרְבוֺת); compare Zephaniah 2:14 (but read ᵐ5 עֹרֵב, We and others); Jeremiah 49:13, and ח חָרְבוֺת ׳מִצְרַיִם Ezekiel 29:10 Egypt shall be wastes of desolation (but ᵑ9 ᵐ5 Co wastes of the sword, חֶרֶב for חֹרֶב); + 38:8 Co, who reads מֵחֹרֶב (or מֵחָרְבָּה).