Limitless Word
חָרַבchârab/khaw-rab'/
HebrewH271740 occurrences (KJV)

to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill

KJV renders it: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.

Where it appears(showing the first 36 of 40)

  • Gen 8:13In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
  • Judg 16:7Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
  • Judg 16:8Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
  • Judg 16:24When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”
  • 2 Kgs 3:23They said, “This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the plunder!”
  • 2 Kgs 19:17Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
  • 2 Kgs 19:24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
  • Job 14:11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
  • Ps 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
  • Isa 19:5The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
  • Isa 19:6The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.
  • Isa 34:10It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
  • Isa 37:18Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
  • Isa 37:25I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
  • Isa 42:15I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
  • Isa 44:27who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’
  • Isa 49:17Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
  • Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
  • Isa 51:10Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
  • Isa 60:12For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
  • Jer 2:12“Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 26:9Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant?’” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.
  • Jer 50:21“Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says Yahweh, “and do according to all that I have commanded you.
  • Jer 50:27Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
  • Jer 51:36Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
  • Ezek 6:6In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
  • Ezek 12:20The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation; then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
  • Ezek 19:7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
  • Ezek 26:2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:
  • Ezek 26:19For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
  • Ezek 29:12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”
  • Ezek 30:7They shall be desolate in the middle of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the middle of the cities that are wasted.
  • Hos 13:15Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
  • Amos 7:9The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
  • Nah 1:4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
  • Zeph 3:6I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.