Charavah חָֽרָבָה
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| חָֽרָבָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | charavah |
| Strong's number | H2724 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | dry ground |
| Occurrences | 8 in 7 verses |
| Most frequent in | Joshua (2) |
Charavah (Hebrew חָֽרָבָה, Strong's H2724) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “dry ground”. It occurs 8 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
dry land, dry ground
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | dry (5), ground (2), land (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | dry land (3), dry ground (3), into dry land (1), dry up (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Charavah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 7:22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Exodus
- Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Joshua
- Joshua 3:17And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
- Joshua 4:18And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 2:8And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 30:12And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Haggai
- Haggai 2:6For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
Notes
- 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.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).