TBESH · H2717A
חָרֵב · cha.rev · to dry
1) to be dry, be dried up 1a) (Qal) to be dried, be dried up 1b) (Pual) to be dried 1c) (Hiphil) to dry up 1d) (Hophal) to be dried up
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cha.rev H2717
חָרֵב (cha.rev) means “to dry” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חָרֵב Hebrew · H2717 40 tagged occurrences in 36 verses
Pronunciation guide: khaw-rab' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H2717B
חָרֵב · cha.rev · to destroy
1) to be waste, lay waste, make desolate, be desolate, be in ruins 1a) (Qal) to be waste, be desolate 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be made desolate 1b2) desolate (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) to lay waste, make desolate 1d) (Hophal) to be laid waste Aramaic equivalent: cha.rav (חֲרַב "be wasted" H2718)
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TBESH · H2717C
חָרַב · cha.rav · to slay
to attack, smite down, slay, fight
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or חֲרֵב; a primitive root; to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
KJV glosses: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
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How translators render H2717
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| will be laid waste | 4 |
| been dried | 2 |
| have laid waste | 2 |
| i have dried up | 2 |
| a desolate | 1 |
| and deserted | 1 |
| and devastated | 1 |
| and dry up | 1 |
| and it dried up | 1 |
| and wreckers | 1 |
| appalled | 1 |
| be dry | 1 |
| becomes parched | 1 |
| dries up | 1 |
| had dried up | 1 |
| have clashed swords | 1 |
| i have made | 1 |
| i will dry up | 1 |
| i will lay waste | 1 |
| it will lie desolate | 1 |
| kill | 1 |
| kill them | 1 |
| now that she lies in ruins | 1 |
| ruined | 1 |
| run dry | 1 |
| the ruined | 1 |
| was dry | 1 |
| who destroyed | 1 |
| who dried up | 1 |
| will be parched | 1 |
| will be utterly destroyed | 1 |
| will run dry | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| shall be laid waste | 3 |
| waste | 2 |
| wasted | 2 |
| also and it was dried up | 1 |
| and dried up | 1 |
| and he laid waste | 1 |
| and i will dry up | 1 |
| and maketh it dry | 1 |
| and the destroyer | 1 |
| and they that made thee waste | 1 |
| are surely | 1 |
| be dry | 1 |
| decayeth | 1 |
| desolate | 1 |
| have destroyed | 1 |
| have i dried | 1 |
| have i dried up | 1 |
| have laid waste | 1 |
| i dry up | 1 |
| i will make waste | 1 |
| it shall lie waste | 1 |
| laid waste | 1 |
| may be laid waste | 1 |
| shall be desolate | 1 |
| shall be dried up | 1 |
| shall be utterly | 1 |
| shall be wasted | 1 |
| she is laid waste | 1 |
| slain | 1 |
| slay | 1 |
| that were never dried | 1 |
| thee a desolate | 1 |
| thou not it which hath dried | 1 |
| was dry | 1 |
| were dried up | 1 |
| which had not been dried | 1 |
Verses containing H2717
Page 1 of 1. 36 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 8:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Read word by word - Judges 16:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”
Read word by word - Judges 16:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.
Read word by word - Judges 16:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 3:23
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“This is blood!” they exclaimed. “The kings have clashed swords and slaughtered one another. Now to the plunder, Moab!”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 19:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
Read word by word - Job 14:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
Read word by word - Psalms 106:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
Read word by word - Isaiah 19:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
Read word by word - Isaiah 19:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
Read word by word - Isaiah 34:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
Read word by word - Isaiah 37:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.
Read word by word - Isaiah 37:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 42:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
Read word by word - Isaiah 44:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
Read word by word - Isaiah 49:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
Read word by word - Isaiah 50:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
Read word by word - Isaiah 51:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
Read word by word - Isaiah 60:12
· BSB · 2 occurrences
For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 26:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 50:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 50:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 6:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 12:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 19:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 26:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 26:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
Read word by word - Ezekiel 29:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 30:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.
Read word by word - Hosea 13:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
Read word by word - Amos 7:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
Read word by word - Nahum 1:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
Read word by word - Zephaniah 3:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.
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