Strong's Hebrew · H2717

חָרַב

chârab · khaw-rab'

Definitionto parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Derivationor חֲרֵב; a primitive root;
KJV usagedecay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Occurrences40 in the KJV · 36 verses

חָרַב in Scripture

Genesis 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month , the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. Judges 16:7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Judges 16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Judges 16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. 2 Kings 3:23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. 2 Kings 19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 2 Kings 19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. Job 14:11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: Psalms 106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. Isaiah 19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. Isaiah 19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. Isaiah 34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
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