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Strong's H2717 חָרַב (charab)

Charab means “decay” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H2717
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 36
Books 12

Strong's H2717 Quick Answer

Strong's H2717 חָרַב חָרֵב (charab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. charab (khaw-rab') (or chareb {khaw-rabe'}) v. 1. to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill [a primitive root] It has 36 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include desolate, through, were, destroyed, and decayeth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
charab (khaw-rab') (or chareb {khaw-rabe'}) v. 1. to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill [a primitive root]
Usage
36 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
desolate, through, were, destroyed, and decayeth

Meaning and Definition

charab (khaw-rab') (or chareb {khaw-rabe'}) v. 1. to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill [a primitive root] KJV: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, X surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.

Original Word
חָרַב חָרֵב
Transliteration
charab
Derivation
Root: חרב
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2717. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to dry

Usage: 1) to be dry, be dried up 1a) (Qal) to be dried, be dried up 1b) (Pual) to be dried 1c) (Hiphil) to dry up 1d) (Hophal) to be dried up

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How Strong's H2717 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render charab, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

desolate Jeremiah 2:12 through Psalms 106:9 decayeth Job 14:11 destroy Jeremiah 50:21 destroyed 2 Kings 19:17 were Genesis 8:13

How Strong's H2717 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 36 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2717 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2717 in the Old Testament

36 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 8:13 KJV

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.

Judges 16:7 KJV

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 KJV

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Usage Excerpts

First 36 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2717.

Genesis 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 16:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Kings 3:23 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
2 Kings 19:24 Old Testament, KJV
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
Job 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Psalms 106:9 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Isaiah 19:6 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 37:18 Old Testament, KJV
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
Isaiah 37:25 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Isaiah 49:17 Old Testament, KJV
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
Isaiah 50:2 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 51:10 Old Testament, KJV
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?
Isaiah 60:12 Old Testament, KJV
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Jeremiah 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 26:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 50:21 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 50:27 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 6:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 12:20 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 26:2 Old Testament, KJV
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:
Ezekiel 26:19 Old Testament, KJV
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;
Ezekiel 29:12 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Ezekiel 30:7 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Hosea 13:15 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Amos 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Nahum 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2717, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 11 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 7 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2717 FAQ

What does charab (חָרַב) mean?

Charab (Strong's H2717) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "decay". charab (khaw-rab') (or chareb {khaw-rabe'}) v. 1. to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill [a primitive root]

How many times is charab (חָרַב) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 36 linked usages for Strong's H2717 across 12 books.

Where can I study charab (חָרַב) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2717 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate charab (חָרַב)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as desolate, through, were, destroyed, decayeth, and destroy. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.