hebrew #2721 - חֹרֶב choreb (dryness)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A collaterally form of chereb; drought or desolation -- desolation, drought, dry, heat, X utterly, waste.

see HEBREW chereb

Englishman's Concordance

Brown-Driver-Briggs

1drynessJudges 6:37,39,40 (all of absence of dew); Jeremiah 50:38 ("" יָבֵשׁ); so read also Zechariah 11:17 (for ᵑ0חֶרֶב, see v^{b and} Sta^{ZAW i. 1881, 29}), a drying up upon his arm (i.e. a withering) and upon his right eye.

2droughtHaggai 1:11 + Deuteronomy 28:22 see above

3parching heat (of sun) Genesis 31:40 (opposed to קֶ֫רַח), Jeremiah 36:30 (opposed to id.); Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 25:4,5 (twice in verse); of fever Job 30:30.

II. חֹ֫רֶבnoun [masculine]desolation; — ׳עָרֵי חIsaiah 61:4cities of desolation ("" שֹׁמֲמוֺת, and, in v^a,חָרְבוֺת); compare Zephaniah 2:14 (but read עֹרֵב, ᵐ5 We and others); Jeremiah 49:13, and ׳מִצְרַיִם חָרְבוֺת חEzekiel 29:10 Egypt shall be wastes of desolation (but ᵐ5ᵑ9 Co wastes of the sword, חֶרֶב for חֹרֶב); + Ezekiel 38:8 Co, who reads מֵחֹרֶב (or מֵחָרְבָּה).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2721. חֹ֫רֶב (choreb) — 16 Occurrences

Genesis 31:40
HEB:בַיּ֛וֹם אֲכָלַ֥נִי חֹ֖רֶב וְקֶ֣רַח בַּלָּ֑יְלָה
NAS: [Thus] I was: by day the heat consumed
KJV: [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed
INT: day consumed the heat and the frost night

Judges 6:37
HEB:כָּל־ הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ חֹ֔רֶב וְיָדַעְתִּ֗י כִּֽי־
NAS: only, and it is dry on all
KJV: be on the fleece only, and [it be] dry upon all the earth
INT: all the ground is dry will know that

Judges 6:39
HEB:יְהִי־ נָ֨א חֹ֤רֶב אֶל־ הַגִּזָּה֙
NAS: let it now be dry only
KJV: with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece,
INT: become now be dry on the fleece

Judges 6:40
HEB:הַה֑וּא וַיְהִי־ חֹ֤רֶב אֶל־ הַגִּזָּה֙
NAS: that night; for it was dry only
KJV: so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece
INT: he it was dry on the fleece

Job 30:30
HEB:חָ֝֗רָה מִנִּי־ חֹֽרֶב׃
NAS: on me, And my bones burn with fever.
KJV: are burned with heat.
INT: burn with fever

Isaiah 4:6
HEB:לְצֵל־ יוֹמָ֖ם מֵחֹ֑רֶב וּלְמַחְסֶה֙ וּלְמִסְתּ֔וֹר
NAS: to [give] shade from the heat by day,
KJV: in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge,
INT: to shade day the heat and refuge and protection

Isaiah 25:4
HEB:מִזֶּ֙רֶם֙ צֵ֣ל מֵחֹ֔רֶב כִּ֛י ר֥וּחַ
NAS: a shade from the heat; For the breath
KJV: a shadow from the heat, when the blast
INT: the storm A shade the heat For the breath

Isaiah 25:5
HEB: כְּחֹ֣רֶב בְּצָי֔וֹן שְׁא֥וֹן
NAS:Like heat in drought, You subdue
KJV: of strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
INT:heat drought the uproar

Isaiah 25:5
HEB:זָרִ֖ים תַּכְנִ֑יעַ חֹ֚רֶב בְּצֵ֣ל עָ֔ב
NAS: of aliens; [Like] heat by the shadow
KJV: in a dry place; [even] the heat with the shadow
INT: of aliens subdue heat the shadow of a cloud

Isaiah 61:4
HEB:וְחִדְּשׁוּ֙ עָ֣רֵי חֹ֔רֶב שֹׁמְמ֖וֹת דּ֥וֹר
NAS: And they will repair the ruined cities,
KJV: and they shall repair the waste cities,
INT: will repair cities the ruined the desolations of many

Jeremiah 36:30
HEB:תִּֽהְיֶ֣ה מֻשְׁלֶ֔כֶת לַחֹ֥רֶב בַּיּ֖וֹם וְלַקֶּ֥רַח
NAS: shall be cast out to the heat of the day
KJV: in the day to the heat, and in the night
INT: shall have shall be cast to the heat of the day and the frost

Jeremiah 49:13
HEB:לְשַׁמָּ֧ה לְחֶרְפָּ֛ה לְחֹ֥רֶב וְלִקְלָלָ֖ה תִּֽהְיֶ֣ה
NAS: a reproach, a ruin and a curse;
KJV: a reproach, a waste, and a curse;
INT: an object A reproach A ruin curse will become

Jeremiah 50:38
HEB: חֹ֥רֶב אֶל־ מֵימֶ֖יהָ
NAS:A drought on her waters,
KJV:A drought [is] upon her waters;
INT:A drought on her waters

Ezekiel 29:10
HEB:מִצְרַ֗יִם לְחָרְבוֹת֙ חֹ֣רֶב שְׁמָמָ֔ה מִמִּגְדֹּ֥ל
NAS: of Egypt an utter waste and desolation,
KJV: of Egypt utterly waste
INT: of Egypt waste an utter and desolation Migdol

Zephaniah 2:14
HEB:יְשׁוֹרֵ֤ר בַּֽחַלּוֹן֙ חֹ֣רֶב בַּסַּ֔ף כִּ֥י
NAS: in the window, Desolation [will be] on the threshold;
KJV: in the windows; desolation [shall be] in the thresholds:
INT: will sing the window Desolation the threshold for

Haggai 1:11
HEB: וָאֶקְרָ֨א חֹ֜רֶב עַל־ הָאָ֣רֶץ
NAS: I called for a drought on the land,
KJV: And I called for a drought upon the land,
INT: called A drought on the land