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# חָרֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2720

**waste** — used 10 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

waste [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2720/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָרֵב⁴: adj. waste, desolate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2720/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. waste, desolate;—ms. abs. ח׳ Je 33:10 + 5 times; fs. חֲרֵבָה Ne 2:3 + 2 times; fpl. הֶחֳרֵבוֹת Ez 36:35, 38 (v. Köi. 241);—of a city, defined מֵאֵין אָדָם וּמֵאֵין בְּהֵמָה Je 33:10, cf. v 12; also Ne 2:3, 17; הֶעָרִים הֶחֳרֵבוֹת Ez 36:35 (+ הַנְשַׁמּוֹת, הַנֶּהֱרָסוֹת; opp. בְּצוּרוֹת יָשָׁ֑בוּ), Hg 1:4, 9 (בַּיִת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] desolate (5); desolate (3); dry (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 17:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.1/#tree)

ט֤וֹב פַּ֣ת חֲ֭רֵבָה וְשַׁלְוָה־בָ֑הּ מִ֝בַּ֗יִת מָלֵ֥א זִבְחֵי־רִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good a.piece.\[of.bread\] dry and security \[is\].with it more than.a.house full sacrifices of.strife

*JPS 1917:* Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.

[Haggai 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.1.4/#tree)

הַעֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֣ם סְפוּנִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה חָרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[does\].a time? \[belong\].to you you to dwell in houses your paneled and the house (the) this \[is\].desolate

*JPS 1917:* 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2720.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2720/): 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).