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title: חָרָבָה — dry ground · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָרָבָה (2724), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: dry ground. BDB 1906: n.f. dry ground. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָרָבָה

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«חָרָבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dry ground** — 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 2724 · **BDB:** חָֽרָבָה

### Glosses

ground (7); dry.ground (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

dry ground [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2724/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. dry ground [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2724/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dry ground;—abs. ח׳ Gn 7:22 + 7 times; opp. הַיָּם Ex 14:21 (J). Hg 2:6; cf. Gn 7:22 (J); opp. water of Jordan Jos 3:17(×2) (J), 4:18 (E), 2 K 2:8; of Nile-arms וְנָתַתִּ֫י יְאֹרִים ח׳ Ez 30:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָרָבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2724/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 7:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.7.22/)

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כֹּ֡ל אֲשֶׁר֩ נִשְׁמַת־ר֨וּחַ חַיִּ֜ים בְּאַפָּ֗יו מִכֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר בֶּחָֽרָבָ֖ה מֵֽתוּ׃

*Word for word:* all that \[the\].breath of.\[the\].breath of.life \[was\].in nostrils its from all that \[was\].on the.dry ground they.died

*JPS 1917:* all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.

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[Ezekiel 30:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.12/)

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וְנָתַתִּ֤י יְאֹרִים֙ חָֽרָבָ֔ה וּמָכַרְתִּ֥י אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ בְּיַד־רָעִ֑ים וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֞י אֶ֤רֶץ וּמְלֹאָהּ֙ בְּיַד־זָרִ֔ים אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ס

*Word for word:* and I.will.make canals dry.ground and I.will.sell (et) the land in.\[the\] hand of.wicked.\[people\] and I.will.devastate \[the\].land and what fills.it by.\[the\] hand of.strangers I Yahweh I.have.spoken

*JPS 1917:* And I will make the rivers dry, and will give the land over into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers; I the LORD have spoken it.

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