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# חָרָבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2724

**dry ground** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dry ground [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2724/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָֽרָבָה: n.f. dry ground [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2724/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dry ground;—abs. ח׳ Gn 7:22 + 7 times; opp. הַיָּם Ex 14:21 (J). Hg 2:6; cf. Gn 7:22 (J); opp. water of Jordan Jos 3:17(×2) (J), 4:18 (E), 2 K 2:8; of Nile-arms וְנָתַתִּ֫י יְאֹרִים ח׳ Ez 30:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ground (7); dry ground (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.22/#tree)

כֹּ֡ל אֲשֶׁר֩ נִשְׁמַת־ר֨וּחַ חַיִּ֜ים בְּאַפָּ֗יו מִכֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר בֶּחָֽרָבָ֖ה מֵֽתוּ׃

*Word for word:* all that \[the\].breath of.\[the\].breath of.life \[was\].in nostrils its from all that \[was\].on the.dry ground they.died

*JPS 1917:* all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.

[Ezekiel 30:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.12/#tree)

וְנָתַתִּ֤י יְאֹרִים֙ חָֽרָבָ֔ה וּמָכַרְתִּ֥י אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ בְּיַד־רָעִ֑ים וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֞י אֶ֤רֶץ וּמְלֹאָהּ֙ בְּיַד־זָרִ֔ים אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ס

*Word for word:* and I.will.make canals dry.ground and I.will.sell (et) the land in.\[the\] hand of.wicked.\[people\] and I.will.devastate \[the\].land and what fills.it by.\[the\] hand of.strangers I Yahweh I.have.spoken

*JPS 1917:* And I will make the rivers dry, and will give the land over into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers; I the LORD have spoken it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2724.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2724/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).