Strong's #2717: charab (pronounced khaw-rab')

or chareb {khaw-rabe'}; a primitive root; to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill:-- decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, X surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chârab / chârêb

1) to be waste, lay waste, make desolate, be desolate, be in ruins

1a) (Qal) to be waste, be desolate

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be made desolate

1b2) desolate (participle)

1c) (Hiphil) to lay waste, make desolate

1d) (Hophal) to be laid waste

2) to be dry, be dried up

2a) (Qal) to be dried, be dried up

2b) (Pual) to be dried

2c) (Hiphil) to dry up

2d) (Hophal) to be dried up

3) to attack, smite down, slay, fight

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

 

Genesis 8:13: "month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah"
Genesis 8:13: "and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry."
Judges 16:7: "withes that dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man."
Judges 16:8: "withes which had not been dried,"
Judges 16:24: "our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many"
2 Kings 3:23: "This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one"
2 Kings 3:23: "This is blood: the kings are surely slain, are surely slain, and they have smitten one"
2 Kings 19:17: "LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,"
2 Kings 19:24: "waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all of besieged places."
Job 14:11: "from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:"
Psalms 106:9: "He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness."
Isaiah 19:5: "shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up."
Isaiah 19:6: "And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither."
Isaiah 34:10: "forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever"
Isaiah 37:18: "LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,"
Isaiah 37:25: "water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers"
Isaiah 42:15: " I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers"
Isaiah 44:27: "That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:"
Isaiah 49:17: "Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of"
Isaiah 50:2: "have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make"
Isaiah 51:10: "Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep;"
Isaiah 60:12: "serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted."
Isaiah 60:12: "serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. shall be utterly wasted."
Jeremiah 2:12: "this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 26:9: "like Shiloh, city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all"
Jeremiah 50:21: "it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste after them, saith the LORD,"
Jeremiah 50:27: " Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for"
Jeremiah 51:36: "thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea,"
Ezekiel 6:6: "In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars"
Ezekiel 6:6: "shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and your idols may be broken and cease,"
Ezekiel 12:20: "And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 19:7: "And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise"
Ezekiel 26:2: "of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:"
Ezekiel 26:19: "the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities are not"
Ezekiel 29:12: "and her cities the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years:"
Ezekiel 30:7: "shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted."
Hosea 13:15: "from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure"
Amos 7:9: "shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house"
Nahum 1:4: "He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth,"
Zephaniah 3:6: "the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:"