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title: חָרֵב — waste · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָרֵב (2720), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: waste. BDB 1906: adj. waste, desolate. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָרֵב

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«חָרֵב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **waste** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 2720 · **BDB:** חָרֵב⁴

### Glosses

\[is\].desolate (5); desolate (3); dry (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

waste [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2720/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. waste, desolate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2720/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. waste, desolate;—ms. abs. ח׳ Je 33:10 + 5 times; fs. חֲרֵבָה Ne 2:3 + 2 times; fpl. הֶחֳרֵבוֹת Ez 36:35, 38 (v. Köi. 241);—of a city, defined מֵאֵין אָדָם וּמֵאֵין בְּהֵמָה Je 33:10, cf. v 12; also Ne 2:3, 17; הֶעָרִים הֶחֳרֵבוֹת Ez 36:35 (+ הַנְשַׁמּוֹת, הַנֶּהֱרָסוֹת; opp. בְּצוּרוֹת יָשָׁ֑בוּ), Hg 1:4, 9 (בַּיִת).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָרֵב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2720/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 17:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.1/)

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ט֤וֹב פַּ֣ת חֲ֭רֵבָה וְשַׁלְוָה־בָ֑הּ מִ֝בַּ֗יִת מָלֵ֥א זִבְחֵי־רִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good a.piece.\[of.bread\] dry and security \[is\].with it more than.a.house full sacrifices of.strife

*JPS 1917:* Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.

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[Haggai 1:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.1.4/)

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הַעֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֣ם סְפוּנִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה חָרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[does\].a time? \[belong\].to you you to dwell in houses your paneled and the house (the) this \[is\].desolate

*JPS 1917:* 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?

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