# H2721 חֹרֶב

חֹרֶב (chôreb), Strong’s H2721: drought or desolation KJV: desolation, drought, dry, heat, [idiom] utterly, waste.. Occurs 16 times.

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*chôreb* — drought or desolation

KJV: desolation, drought, dry, heat, [idiom] utterly, waste.

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֹ֫רֶב n.m. dryness, drought, heat
- 1 dryness
- 2 drought
- 3 parching heat
- חֹ֫רֶב n.[m.]
- חֹ֫רֶב n.[m.] desolation

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=40) — This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
- [Judges 6:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=37) — behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all…
- [Judges 6:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=39) — Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a…
- [Judges 6:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=40) — God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
- [Isaiah 4:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/4?v=6) — There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and…
- [Isaiah 25:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/25?v=4) — For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade…
- [Isaiah 25:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/25?v=5) — As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of…
- [Isaiah 61:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/61?v=4) — They will rebuild the old ruins. They will raise up the former devastated places. They will repair the ruined cities…
- [Jeremiah 36:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=30) — Therefore the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead…
- [Jeremiah 49:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/49?v=13) — For I have sworn by myself,” says the LORD, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse…