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# חֹרֶב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2721

**dryness** — used 16 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

dryness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2721/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹ֫רֶב: n.m. dryness, drought, heat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2721/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 31:40 dryness, drought, heat, abs. ח׳ Gn 31:40 + 11 times + Dt 28:22 (for MT חֶרֶב; v. Di, sq. 𝔙; 𝔊 and 𝔊L om.);— dryness Ju 6:37, 39, 40 (all of absence of dew); Je 50:38 (‖ יָבֵשׁ); so read also Zc 11:17 (for MT חֶרֶב, see v b and StaZAW i. 1881, 29), a drying up upon his arm (i. e. a withering) and upon his right eye. drought Hg 1:11 + Dt 28:22 v. supr. parching heat (of sun) Gn 31:40 (opp. קֶ֫רַח), Je 36:30 (opp. id.); Is 4:6; 25:4, 5(×2) of fever Jb 30:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: heat (7); dryness (3); a drought (2).

## In the verses

[Job 30:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.30/#tree)

ע֭וֹרִישָׁחַ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְעַצְמִי־חָ֝֗רָה מִנִּי־חֹֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* skin my it.has.become.black from on me and bone my it.has.burned from heat

*JPS 1917:* My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.

[Isaiah 25:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.5/#tree)

כְּחֹ֣רֶב בְּצָי֔וֹן שְׁא֥וֹן זָרִ֖ים תַּכְנִ֑יעַ חֹ֚רֶב בְּצֵ֣ל עָ֔ב זְמִ֥יר עָֽרִיצִ֖ים יַעֲנֶֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* like heat in a.dry.land \[the\].uproar of.strangers you.will.subdue heat by.\[the\] shade of.a.cloud \[the\].song of.ruthless.\[people\] he.will.quieten

*JPS 1917:* As the heat in a dry place, Thou didst subdue the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones was brought low.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2721.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2721/): 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).