Strong H2717H2717Bחָרֵב

to destroy

Transliteration: chârab chârêb
Pronunciation: {khaw-rab'} khaw-rabe'
Morphology: Hebrew Verb

Definition

STEP sense: to destroy

Exact lexical definition: be waste

Part of speech: verb

BDB context: [ חָרֵב ] be waste , desolate Qal be waste , desolate Niph . as adj., desolate city Hiph . lay waste , make desolate Hoph . she is laid waste

General definition

A primitive root; to parch (through {drought}) that {is} (by analogy) to {desolate} {destroy} kill : - {decay} (be) {desolate} destroy ({-er}) (be) dry ({up}) {slay} X {surely} ({lay} {lie} make) waste.

In the Bible

Strong H2717B appears in 18 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

waste12
desolate3
be1
destroy1
destroyer1
lay1

First verses

Judges 16:24
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
2 Kings 19:17
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
Isaiah 34:10
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Isaiah 37:18
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
Isaiah 42:15
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Isaiah 49:17
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
Isaiah 60:12
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Jeremiah 2:12
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 26:9
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
Ezekiel 6:6
In all your dwellingplaces 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 images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 19:7
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Ezekiel 26:2
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
Ezekiel 26:19
For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
Ezekiel 29:12
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
Ezekiel 30:7
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
Amos 7:9
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Zephaniah 3:6
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.