חׇרְבָּהchorbâh

waste, desolation, ruin

Pronunciation: khor-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2723

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 42 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 26:31 I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.
  • Leviticus 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.
  • Ezra 9:9 For we were slaves, but in his unfailing love our God did not abandon us in our slavery. Instead, he caused the kings of Persia to treat us favorably. He revived us so we could rebuild the Temple of our God and repair its ruins. He has given us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Job 3:14 I would rest with the world’s kings and prime ministers, whose great buildings now lie in ruins.
  • Psalms 9:6 The enemy is finished, in endless ruins; the cities you uprooted are now forgotten.
  • Psalms 102:6 I am like an owl in the desert, like a little owl in a far-off wilderness.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).