# H2719 חֶרֶב

חֶרֶב (chereb), Strong’s H2719: drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement KJV: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.. Occurs…

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*chereb* — drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement

KJV: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.

Derived from [חָרַב chârab](https://besorah.bible/word/H2717) (to parch)

Occurs 412 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֶ֫רֶב 411 n.f. sword (as weapon)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 3:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=24) — So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned…
- [Genesis 27:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=40) — You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will…
- [Genesis 31:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=26) — Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the…
- [Genesis 34:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=25) — On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword…
- [Genesis 34:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=26) — They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went…
- [Genesis 48:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=22) — Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword…
- [Exodus 5:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=3) — They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and…
- [Exodus 5:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=21) — They said to them, “May the LORD look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of…
- [Exodus 15:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=9) — The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will…
- [Exodus 17:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=13) — Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.