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title: חֵרָבוֹן — drought · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֵרָבוֹן (2725), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: drought. BDB 1906: n.m. drought. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֵרָבוֹן

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«חֵרָבוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drought** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2725 · **BDB:** חֵרָבוֹן

### Glosses

dry.heat(s) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drought [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2725/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. drought [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2725/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. drought, only pl. cstr. בְּחַרְבֹנֵי קַ֫יִץ ψ 32:4 metaph. of fever heat.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֵרָבוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2725/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 32:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.4/)

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כִּ֤י ׀ יוֹמָ֣ם וָלַיְלָה֮ תִּכְבַּ֥ד עָלַ֗י יָ֫דֶ֥ךָ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְשַׁדִּ֑י בְּחַרְבֹ֖נֵי קַ֣יִץ סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) by.day and night it.was.heavy on me hand your it.was.changed juice my by.\[the\] dry.heat(s) of.summer Selah

*JPS 1917:* For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned as in the droughts of summer.

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