TBESH · H2723
חׇרְבָּה · chor.bah · desolation
a place laid waste, ruin, waste, desolation
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chor.bah H2723
חׇרְבָּה (chor.bah) means “desolation” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חׇרְבָּה Hebrew · H2723 42 tagged occurrences in 42 verses
Pronunciation guide: khor-baw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
feminine of H2721 (חֹרֶב); properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
KJV glosses: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
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How translators render H2723
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 |
|---|---|
| ruins | 7 |
| a ruin | 2 |
| among the ruins | 2 |
| and the ruins | 2 |
| in ruins | 2 |
| in the ruins | 2 |
| a desolate | 1 |
| a desolation | 1 |
| a pile of rubble | 1 |
| a wasteland | 1 |
| cities now in ruins | 1 |
| desolate | 1 |
| desolation | 1 |
| far from their ruined homes | 1 |
| into a ruin | 1 |
| it a wasteland | 1 |
| its ruins | 1 |
| o ruins | 1 |
| ruin | 1 |
| that the desolation | 1 |
| the desolate | 1 |
| the desolate places | 1 |
| the ruins | 1 |
| their ruins | 1 |
| they lie today in ruins | 1 |
| through the deserts | 1 |
| to rubble | 1 |
| waste | 1 |
| wasteland | 1 |
| you a ruin | 1 |
| your ruined | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| waste | 5 |
| wastes | 3 |
| a desolation | 2 |
| and the wastes | 2 |
| all her waste places | 1 |
| also out of their desolate places | 1 |
| and the waste places | 1 |
| and they are wasted | 1 |
| and waste | 1 |
| are laid waste | 1 |
| be laid waste | 1 |
| desolate places | 1 |
| desolations | 1 |
| destructions | 1 |
| for thy waste | 1 |
| in places desolate | 1 |
| in the deserts | 1 |
| in the desolations | 1 |
| in the wastes | 1 |
| it desolate | 1 |
| of the desert | 1 |
| shall be a desolation | 1 |
| shall be desolate | 1 |
| shall become a desolation | 1 |
| the decayed places | 1 |
| the desolate places | 1 |
| the desolations | 1 |
| thee waste | 1 |
| them a desolation | 1 |
| them through the deserts | 1 |
| those wastes | 1 |
| upon the desolate places | 1 |
| waste places | 1 |
| ye waste places | 1 |
Verses containing H2723
Page 1 of 1. 42 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Leviticus 26:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
Read word by word - Ezra 9:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
Read word by word - Job 3:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
Read word by word - Psalms 9:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.7
- Psalms 102:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.7
- Psalms 109:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Read word by word - Isaiah 5:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
Read word by word - Isaiah 44:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
Read word by word - Isaiah 48:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
Read word by word - Isaiah 49:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
Read word by word - Isaiah 51:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
Read word by word - Isaiah 52:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
Read word by word - Isaiah 58:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
Read word by word - Isaiah 61:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
Read word by word - Isaiah 64:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.10
- Jeremiah 7:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 22:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
Read word by word - Jeremiah 27:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 5:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 13:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 25:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 26:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 29:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 29:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 33:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 33:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 35:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 36:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 38:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 38:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
Read word by word - Daniel 9:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
Read word by word - Malachi 1:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.
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