# חָרַב (charav)

Israeli respelling: cha-rav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2717. 38 Old Testament occurrences.

to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill

King James renderings: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/charav-h2717

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Judges 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Judges 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Judges 16:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 o…
- [2 Kings 3:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [2 Kings 19:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/17) — Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
- [2 Kings 19:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Nehemiah 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/3) — And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchre…
- [Nehemiah 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/17) — Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and…
- [Job 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/11) — As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
- [Psalms 106:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/9) — He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
- [Isaiah 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/5) — And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
- [Isaiah 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Isaiah 34:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 shal…
- [Isaiah 37:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/18) — Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
- [Isaiah 37:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Isaiah 42:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Isaiah 44:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/27) — That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
- [Isaiah 49:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/17) — Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
- [Isaiah 50:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 h…
- [Isaiah 51:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 60:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/12) — For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
- [Jeremiah 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/12) — Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
- [Jeremiah 26:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 inhab…
- [Jeremiah 50:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 50:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Jeremiah 51:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ezekiel 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ma…
- [Ezekiel 12:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Ezekiel 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ezekiel 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 s…
- [Ezekiel 26:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Ezekiel 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 w…
- [Ezekiel 30:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 was…
- [Hosea 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 s…
- [Amos 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Jer…
- [Nahum 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Zephaniah 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 tha…