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STRONGS NUMBER H2723
Transliteration: chorbah
Phonetic Spelling: (khor-baw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: waste, desolation, ruin
Meaning: waste, desolation, ruin
Word Summary
chorbah: waste, desolation, ruin
Original Word: חָרְבָּהTransliteration: chorbah
Phonetic Spelling: (khor-baw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: waste, desolation, ruin
Meaning: waste, desolation, ruin
Strong's Concordance
decayed place, desolate place destruction, laid waste place Feminine of choreb; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation -- decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
see HEBREW choreb
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2723. chorbah
חָרְבָּה noun feminine waste, desolation, ruin; — absolute ׳ח Leviticus 26:31 15t. + Ezekiel 38:8 (strike out ᵑ6 Co) + 38:12 ᵐ5 חרבה Co for חרבות; plural חֳרָבוֺת Psalm 9:7 11t. (Ezekiel 38:12, compare above); construct חָרְבוֺת Isaiah 5:17 7t.; suffix חָרְבֹתַיִךְ 49:19; חָרְבֹתָיו Ezra 9:9; חָרְבֹתֶיהָ Isaiah 51:3; חָרְבוֺתֶיהָ 44:26; חָרְבוֺתֵיהֶם Psalm 109:10 2 Chronicles 34:6 (compare חֶרֶב and below); (chiefly mid. and late Hebrew Isa28t.; Jeremiah 10 t., Ezekiel 14 t. — including Ezekiel 38:8, q. strike out Co); —
1 waste, ruin, of cities of Israel Leviticus 26:31, 33 (H); Judah Isaiah 44:26; 49:19 ("" שֹׁמְמֹת), 58:12 (בנה), Jeremiah 25:18; 27:17; 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) 36:33 (id.); Egypt 29:9-10, (in both "" שְׁמָמָה; חֹרֶב חרבות in 29:10); ruin of temple Ezra 9:9; = ruined dwellings Psalm 109:10; compare 2 Chronicles 34:6, where read perhaps בְּחָרְבֹתֵיהֶם for בתיהם בּחר (see חֶרֶב below III. חרב); Jeremiah 22:5; in General ruins (si vera 1., see Di; object of בנה) Job 3:14; ח ׳כוס Psalm 102:7 an owl of a ruin.
2 of land: waste place amid ruins Isaiah 5:17, compare 51:3 ("" עֲרָבָה מִדְבָּר,); land a desolation Jeremiah 7:34; 44:22; Ezekiel 25:13 (Edom) Jeremiah 25:11; Isaiah 64:10 and Ezekiel 33:24, 27 (of Judah), compare 13:4, בח ׳כְשֻׁעָלִים simile of the prophets; ׳הח הַשֹּׁמֵמוֺת 36:4 (of Israel); of desolation of enemies of Israel Psalm 9:7 (׳ח לָנֶ֫צַח); ׳ח עולם = old ruins Isaiah 61:4 (with בנה); elsewhere perpetual ruin, desolation Jeremiah 25:9; 49:13 (cities of Bosra); ׳ה מעולם Ezekiel 26:20 (simile of Tyre).