# H2723 חׇרְבָּה

חׇרְבָּה (chorbâh), Strong’s H2723: properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation KJV: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).. Occurs 42 times.

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*chorbâh* — properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation

KJV: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).

Occurs 42 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָרְבָּה n.f. waste, desolation, ruin

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 26:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=31) — I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet…
- [Leviticus 26:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=33) — I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your…
- [Isaiah 5:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=17) — Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
- [Isaiah 44:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=26) — who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be…
- [Isaiah 48:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/48?v=21) — They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also…
- [Isaiah 49:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/49?v=19) — “For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be…
- [Isaiah 51:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/51?v=3) — For the LORD has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her…
- [Isaiah 52:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/52?v=9) — Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people. He has…
- [Isaiah 58:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=12) — Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You…
- [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…