Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
be wasted
Usage: 1) to dry up, be waste 1a) (Hophal) to be laid waste
Charab means “destroy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2718 — katerchomai (“depart”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2718 חֲרַב (charab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. charab (khar-ab') v. 1. to demolish [(Aramaic) a root corresponding to H2717] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include destroyed. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
charab (khar-ab') v. 1. to demolish [(Aramaic) a root corresponding to H2717] KJV: destroy. Root(s): H2717
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be wasted
Usage: 1) to dry up, be waste 1a) (Hophal) to be laid waste
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.
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.
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.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H2718.
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2718, grouped by book.
Charab (Strong's H2718) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "destroy". charab (khar-ab') v. 1. to demolish [(Aramaic) a root corresponding to H2717]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H2718 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2718 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as destroyed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.