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title: חֹרֶב — dryness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹרֶב (2721), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 16 times: dryness. BDB 1906: n.m. dryness, drought, heat. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹרֶב

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«חֹרֶב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dryness** — 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:** 16 times · **Key:** 2721 · **BDB:** חֹ֫רֶב

### Glosses

heat (7); dryness (3); a.drought (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dryness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2721/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. dryness, drought, heat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2721/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 31:40 dryness, drought, heat, abs. ח׳ Gn 31:40 + 11 times + Dt 28:22 (for MT חֶרֶב; v. Di, sq. 𝔙; 𝔊 and 𝔊L om.);— dryness Ju 6:37, 39, 40 (all of absence of dew); Je 50:38 (‖ יָבֵשׁ); so read also Zc 11:17 (for MT חֶרֶב, see v b and StaZAW i. 1881, 29), a drying up upon his arm (i. e. a withering) and upon his right eye. drought Hg 1:11 + Dt 28:22 v. supr. parching heat (of sun) Gn 31:40 (opp. קֶ֫רַח), Je 36:30 (opp. id.); Is 4:6; 25:4, 5(×2) of fever Jb 30:30.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 3 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, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֹרֶב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2721/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.30/)

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ע֭וֹרִישָׁחַ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְעַצְמִי־חָ֝֗רָה מִנִּי־חֹֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* skin my it.has.become.black from on me and bone my it.has.burned from heat

*JPS 1917:* My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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[Isaiah 25:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.5/)

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כְּחֹ֣רֶב בְּצָי֔וֹן שְׁא֥וֹן זָרִ֖ים תַּכְנִ֑יעַ חֹ֚רֶב בְּצֵ֣ל עָ֔ב זְמִ֥יר עָֽרִיצִ֖ים יַעֲנֶֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* like heat in a.dry.land \[the\].uproar of.strangers you.will.subdue heat by.\[the\] shade of.a.cloud \[the\].song of.ruthless.\[people\] he.will.quieten

*JPS 1917:* As the heat in a dry place, Thou didst subdue the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones was brought low.

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