Charev חָרֵב

Charev (Hebrew חָרֵב, Strong's H2717) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to destroy”. It occurs 40 times in 36 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H2717B: to destroy

H2717A: to dry

H2717C: to slay

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Charev, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 8:13
  And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.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

• Judges 16:7
  And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.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
  Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.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
  And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.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

• 2 Kings 3:23
  And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.“This is blood!” they exclaimed. “The kings have clashed swords and slaughtered one another. Now to the plunder, Moab!”
• 2 Kings 19:17
  Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
• 2 Kings 19:24
  I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Job

• Job 14:11
  As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

Psalms

• Psalm 106:9
  He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 19:5
  And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
• Isaiah 19:6
  And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
• Isaiah 34:10
  It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.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.
• Isaiah 37:18
  Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.
• Isaiah 37:25
  I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.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
  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.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.
• Isaiah 44:27
  That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
• Isaiah 49:17
  Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
• Isaiah 50:2
  Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.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.
• Isaiah 51:10
  Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?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?
• Isaiah 60:12
  For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 2:12
  Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 26:9
  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.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
  Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.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
  Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.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.
• Jeremiah 51:36
  Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.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.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 6:6
  In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.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.
• Ezekiel 12:20
  And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.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
  And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.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
  Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is 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,’
• Ezekiel 26:19
  For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;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
  And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.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
  And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

Hosea

• Hosea 13:15
  Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.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.

Amos

• Amos 7:9
  And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.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

• Nahum 1:4
  He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.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.

Zephaniah

• Zephaniah 3:6
  I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.“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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).