# חׇרְבָּה (chrbah)

Israeli respelling: chrbah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2723. 42 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation

King James renderings: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chrbah-h2723

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 26:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/31) — And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
- [Leviticus 26:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/33) — And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- [Ezra 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/9) — For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia,…
- [Job 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/14) — With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
- [Psalms 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/6) — O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
- [Psalms 102:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/6) — I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- [Psalms 109:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/10) — Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
- [Isaiah 5:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/17) — Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
- [Isaiah 44:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/26) — That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; an…
- [Isaiah 48:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/21) — And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also,…
- [Isaiah 49:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/19) — For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they…
- [Isaiah 51:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/3) — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the g…
- [Isaiah 52:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/52/9) — Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
- [Isaiah 58:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/12) — And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be…
- [Isaiah 61:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/61/4) — And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of…
- [Isaiah 64:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/11) — Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
- [Jeremiah 7:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/34) — Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the…
- [Jeremiah 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/5) — But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
- [Jeremiah 25:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/9) — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will br…
- [Jeremiah 25:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/11) — And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- [Jeremiah 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/18) — To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an…
- [Jeremiah 27:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/27/17) — Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
- [Jeremiah 44:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/2) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of J…
- [Jeremiah 44:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/6) — Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are was…
- [Jeremiah 44:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/22) — So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefo…
- [Jeremiah 49:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/13) — For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities the…
- [Ezekiel 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/14) — Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
- [Ezekiel 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/4) — O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
- [Ezekiel 25:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/13) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it…
- [Ezekiel 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/20) — When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the e…
- [Ezekiel 29:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/9) — And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I h…
- [Ezekiel 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/10) — Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower o…
- [Ezekiel 33:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/24) — Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many…
- [Ezekiel 33:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/27) — Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in…
- [Ezekiel 35:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/4) — I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
- [Ezekiel 36:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/4) — Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers…
- [Ezekiel 36:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/10) — And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be build…
- [Ezekiel 36:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/33) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, a…
- [Ezekiel 38:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/8) — After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gather…
- [Ezekiel 38:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/12) — To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathe…
- [Daniel 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/2) — In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prop…
- [Malachi 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/4) — Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build,…