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# חָרַב

Biblical Hebrew

**attack** — used 4 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

attack [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָרַב: vb. attack, smite down Hoph. Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. (Aramaic and rare) attack, smite down (cf. Arabic حَرَبَ plunder, iii. wage war with, vi. fight together, حَرْبٌ war, battle; Syriac ܚܪܰܒ smith, slay)— Imv. ms. חֲרֹב Je 50:21 attack (+ וְהַחֲרֵם אַחֲרֵיהֶם); mpl. חִרְבוּ v 27 obj. כָּל־פָּרֶיהָ, fig. of men of Babylon. Pf. 3 pl. נֶחֶרְבוּ המלכים (v. Hoph.) הָחֳרֵב 2 K 3:23 the kings have attacked one another, fought together (‖ וַיַּכּוּ אִישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵהוּ). Inf. abs. 2 K 3:23, v. Niph., but read perhaps הֵחָרֵב, cf. Dr Lv 19:20, note.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: kill (2); surely (fight) (1); they have fought one another (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 50:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.27/#tree)

חִרְבוּ֙ כָּל־פָּרֶ֔יהָ יֵרְד֖וּ לַטָּ֑בַח ה֣וֹי עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם כִּֽי־בָ֥א יוֹמָ֖ם עֵ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* kill all bulls its.young let.them.go.down to the slaughter woe! on them (dm) it.has.come day their the.time their.punishment their

*JPS 1917:* Slay all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter; woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

[2 Kings 3:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.3.23/#tree)

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ דָּ֣ם זֶ֔ה הָחֳרֵ֤ב נֶֽחֶרְבוּ֙ הַמְּלָכִ֔ים וַיַּכּ֖וּ אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵ֑הוּ וְעַתָּ֥ה לַשָּׁלָ֖ל מוֹאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and they.said \[is\].blood this surely.(fight) they.have.fought.one.another the kings and they.have.struck.down each (et) neighbor his and therefore to the plunder O.Moab

*JPS 1917:* and they said: 'This is blood: the kings have surely fought together, and they have smitten each man his fellow; now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e8_5b7_5d1/): 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).