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Strong's H2723 חׇרְבָּה (chorbah)

Chorbah means “decayed place” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2723 — kategoreo (“accuse”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2723
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 42
Books 9

Strong's H2723 Quick Answer

Strong's H2723 חָרבָּה (chorbah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chorbah (khor-baw') n-f. 1. (properly) drought 2. (by implication) a desolation It has 42 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include desolate, desolation, desolations, laid, and destructions. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chorbah (khor-baw') n-f. 1. (properly) drought 2. (by implication) a desolation
Usage
42 linked usages
Books
9 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
desolate, desolation, desolations, laid, and destructions

Meaning and Definition

chorbah (khor-baw') n-f. 1. (properly) drought 2. (by implication) a desolation [feminine of H2721] KJV: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place). Root(s): H2721

Original Word
חָרבָּה
Transliteration
chorbah
Derivation
First root strongs: 2721
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2723. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2723 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chorbah, 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 Leviticus 26:33 14× desolation Leviticus 26:31 desolations Ezra 9:9 laid Isaiah 64:11 decayed Isaiah 44:26 destructions Psalms 9:6

How Strong's H2723 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 42 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2723 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 H2723 in the Old Testament

42 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Leviticus 26:31 KJV

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 KJV

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 KJV

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, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Usage Excerpts

First 42 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2723.

Leviticus 26:31 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Job 3:14 Old Testament, KJV
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
Psalms 9:6 Old Testament, KJV
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Psalms 102:6 Old Testament, KJV
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Psalms 109:10 Old Testament, KJV
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Isaiah 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah 44:26 Old Testament, KJV
That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
Isaiah 48:21 Old Testament, KJV
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, and the waters gushed out.
Isaiah 49:19 Old Testament, KJV
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 that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Isaiah 51:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 52:9 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Isaiah 61:4 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Isaiah 64:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 22:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Jeremiah 27:17 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
Jeremiah 44:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
Jeremiah 44:6 Old Testament, KJV
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 wasted and desolate, as at this day.
Jeremiah 44:22 Old Testament, KJV
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Jeremiah 49:13 Old Testament, KJV
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 thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Ezekiel 5:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
Ezekiel 25:13 Old Testament, KJV
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 desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 26:20 Old Testament, KJV
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 earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
Ezekiel 29:9 Old Testament, KJV
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 have made it.
Ezekiel 29:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
Ezekiel 33:24 Old Testament, KJV
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; the land is given us for inheritance.
Ezekiel 33:27 Old Testament, KJV
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 the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
Ezekiel 35:4 Old Testament, KJV
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 36:4 Old Testament, KJV
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, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
Ezekiel 36:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 builded:
Ezekiel 36:33 Old Testament, KJV
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, and the wastes shall be builded.
Ezekiel 38:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Ezekiel 38:12 Old Testament, KJV
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 gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
Daniel 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Malachi 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2723, grouped by book.

Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 14 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2723 FAQ

What does chorbah (חׇרְבָּה) mean?

Chorbah (Strong's H2723) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "decayed place". chorbah (khor-baw') n-f. 1. (properly) drought 2. (by implication) a desolation

How many times is chorbah (חׇרְבָּה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 42 linked usages for Strong's H2723 across 9 books.

Where can I study chorbah (חׇרְבָּה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2723 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chorbah (חׇרְבָּה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as desolate, desolation, desolations, laid, destructions, and decayed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.