חָרֵב

Genesis 8:13 חָֽרְב֥וּ חָֽרְב֖וּ they were dried up

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Judges 16:7 חֹרָ֑בוּ they have been dried

Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

Judges 16:8 חֹרָ֑בוּ they had been dried

So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

Judges 16:24 מַחֲרִ֣יב [the] desolator of

And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”

2 Kings 3:23 הָחֳרֵ֤ב נֶֽחֶרְבוּ֙ certainly <to fight>, they have fought one another

“This is blood!” they exclaimed. “The kings have clashed swords and slaughtered one another. Now to the plunder, Moab!”

2 Kings 19:17 הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ they have made desolate

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.

2 Kings 19:24 וְאַחְרִב֙ so I may dry up

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Job 14:11 יֶחֱרַ֥ב it dries up

As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

Psalm 106:9 וַֽיֶּחֱרָ֑ב and it dried up

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

Here: The subject is the sea, not God: 'and it went dry.' The grammar pictures the sea obeying instantly, the way a beaten enemy gives way at a war cry. The root echoes the 'dry ground' (ḥārābāh) of Exodus 14:21.

Isaiah 19:5 יֶחֱרַ֥ב it will become dry

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

Isaiah 19:6 וְחָרְב֖וּ and they will become dry

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

Isaiah 34:10 תֶּחֱרָ֔ב it will be desolate

It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

Here: Feminine again (the land). The root covers both 'dried up' and 'laid waste'. The picture is dried-out, burnt-out ground where no one lives.

Isaiah 37:18 הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ they have made desolate

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.

Isaiah 37:25 וְאַחְרִב֙ so I may dry up

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Isaiah 42:15 אַחֲרִ֤יב I will lay waste

I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

Here: 'I will make dry / make desolate.' The form means God makes it happen. Here the sense of drying fits the parallel verb 'wither'. It also sounds almost the same as 'I kept silent' (ʾaḥărîsh) in verse 14: the God who was silent now scorches the land.

Isaiah 44:27 חֳרָ֑בִי be dried up

who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

Isaiah 49:17 וּמַחֲרִבַ֖יִךְ and [those who] make desolate you

Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

Isaiah 50:2 אַחֲרִ֣יב I dry up

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Here: 'I dry up', a causative form (God makes it dry). Present or habitual: this is what he does. It recalls the drying of the Red Sea and the Jordan.

Isaiah 51:10 הַמַּחֲרֶ֣בֶת who dried up

Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

Here: A participle with 'the', so 'the one who dries up'. It works almost like a title, the way hymns praise God as 'the one who…'. It also echoes the sound of hammaḥṣebet ('the one who hewed') in v. 9.

Isaiah 60:12 חָרֹ֥ב יֶחֱרָֽבוּ׃ certainly <to be desolate>, they will become desolate

For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.

Here: An infinitive (the bare verbal noun) placed before the finite verb of the same root. Hebrew does this for emphasis: "utterly, without question".

Jeremiah 2:12 חָרְב֥וּ be desolate

Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.

Here: 'Be dried up / be devastated!' This is the normal verb for water drying up, and also for cities and land left in ruins. Told to the sky, the rain-giver, it carries the threat of drought, and it sets up the water imagery of the next verse.

Jeremiah 26:9 תֶּחֱרַ֖ב it will be desolate

How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:21 חֲרֹ֨ב kill

Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:27 חִרְבוּ֙ kill

Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.

Here: A plural command shouted to the invading army (the same troops ordered about in vv. 21–26). This rare verb sounds like ḥereb, 'sword', which is the key word of vv. 35–37 ('A sword against the Chaldeans…'), so the picture is 'put them to the sword'.

Jeremiah 51:36 וְהַחֲרַבְתִּי֙ and I will dry up

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.

Here: 'And I will dry up.' The root covers both drying and desolation, so it hints at ruin as well as drought. It also sounds like ḥereb, 'sword', the key word of the nearby 'sword' oracle (50:35–38).

Ezekiel 6:6 תֶּחֱרַ֔בְנָה יֶחֶרְב֨וּ they will be waste, they may be waste

Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

Here: 'Will be ruined, lie in ruins.' The root also means 'dry up', so the picture is a lifeless, empty place. It sets up the same verb used again for the altars.

Ezekiel 12:20 תֶּחֱרַ֔בְנָה they will be waste

The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

Ezekiel 19:7 הֶחֱרִ֑יב it laid waste

He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.

Ezekiel 26:2 הָחֳרָֽבָה׃ it has been laid waste

“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’

Here: “She has been made a ruin.” The verb is passive, so the devastation was done to her. Set bluntly beside “I'll get my fill” with no connecting word, it states Tyre's logic: her ruin is my gain.

Ezekiel 26:19 נֶחֱרֶ֔בֶת desolate

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

Ezekiel 29:12 מָֽחֳרָבוֹת֙ laid waste

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

Ezekiel 30:7 נַחֲרָב֖וֹת made waste

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

Hosea 13:15 וְיֶחֱרַ֣ב so it may be dried up

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

Here: 'And it will be dried out.' The same root is used for lands and cities laid waste, so the drought already points toward ruin.

Amos 7:9 יֶחֱרָ֑בוּ they will be waste

The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”

Nahum 1:4 הֶֽחֱרִ֑יב he dries up

He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.

Here: "He has made dry." The perfect tense states it as a settled fact. The root also produces words for parched ground and for ruin, so the drying is close to devastation.

Zephaniah 3:6 הֶחֱרַ֥בְתִּי I have made desolate

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

Here: A second "I did it." The verb means to turn a place into a dry, ruined waste. Kings of Assyria are the subject of this same verb, with nations as the object, in 2 Kings 19:17, so here God claims the kind of act those kings were known for.