Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2723

חׇרְבָּה

chor.bah · “desolation”

Used 42 times across 9 books

Definition

a place laid waste, ruin, waste, desolation

Where it appears

Leviticus

2

Ezra

1

Job

1

Psalms

3

Isaiah

9

Jeremiah

10

Ezekiel

14

Daniel

1

Malachi

1

In the text

Leviticus 26:31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.Ezra 9:9For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.Job 3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;Psalms 9:7But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.Psalms 102:7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.Psalms 109:10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.Isaiah 5:17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.Isaiah 44:26That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:Isaiah 48:21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

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