STRONGS NUMBER H2723


Word Summary
chorbah: waste, desolation, ruin
Original Word: חָרְבָּה
Transliteration: 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

חָרְבָּהnoun feminine waste, desolation, ruin; — absolute ׳חLeviticus 26:31 15t. + Ezekiel 38:8 (strike out ᵑ6‎ Co) + 38:12 ᵐ5 חרבה‎ Co for חרבות‎; plural חֳרָבוֺתPsalm 9:7 11t. (Ezekiel 38:12, compare above); construct חָרְבוֺתIsaiah 5:17 7t.; suffix חָרְבֹתַיִךְ49:19; חָרְבֹתָיוEzra 9:9; חָרְבֹתֶיהָIsaiah 51:3; חָרְבוֺתֶיהָ44:26; חָרְבוֺתֵיהֶםPsalm 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 ׳כוסPsalm 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 הַשֹּׁמֵמוֺת36:4 (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 מעולםEzekiel 26:20 (simile of Tyre).