Strong's #2723: chorbah (pronounced khor-baw')

feminine of 2721; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation:--decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chorbâh

1) a place laid waste, ruin, waste, desolation

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H2721

Usage:

This word is used 42 times:

 

Leviticus 26:31: "And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not"
Leviticus 26:33: "shall be desolate, and your cities waste."
Ezra 9:9: "of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem."
Job 3:14: "and counselors which built desolate places"
Psalms 9:6: "O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: cities; their memorial is perished"
Psalms 102:6: "of the wilderness: like an owl of the desert."
Psalms 109:10: "be continually vagabonds, and beg: their bread also out of their desolate places. their bread also out of their desolate places."
Isaiah 5:17: "Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat."
Isaiah 44:26: "of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places"
Isaiah 48:21: "And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock"
Isaiah 49:19: "For thy waste and thy desolate places, of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow"
Isaiah 51:3: "he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert"
Isaiah 52:9: "Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted"
Isaiah 58:12: "And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;"
Isaiah 61:4: "And they shall build the old wastes, the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste"
Isaiah 64:11: "and all our pleasant things are laid waste."
Jeremiah 7:34: "and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate."
Jeremiah 22:5: "this house shall become a desolation."
Jeremiah 25:9: "them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations."
Jeremiah 25:11: "whole land a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve"
Jeremiah 25:18: "thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this"
Jeremiah 27:17: "should this city be laid waste?"
Jeremiah 44:2: "and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth"
Jeremiah 44:6: "and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day."
Jeremiah 44:22: "of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse,"
Jeremiah 49:13: "the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes."
Ezekiel 5:14: "Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach that are round about thee, in the sight of all"
Ezekiel 13:4: "thy prophets are in the deserts."
Ezekiel 25:13: "and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall"
Ezekiel 26:20: "and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down"
Ezekiel 29:9: "of Egypt shall be and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD:"
Ezekiel 29:10: "the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower"
Ezekiel 33:24: "of man, they that inhabit wastes of the land of Israel speak,"
Ezekiel 33:27: "live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that"
Ezekiel 35:4: "I will lay thy cities waste, shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that"
Ezekiel 36:4: "to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became"
Ezekiel 36:10: "even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built:"
Ezekiel 36:33: "your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built."
Ezekiel 38:8: "against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it"
Ezekiel 38:12: "to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered"
Daniel 9:2: "that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem."
Malachi 1:4: "but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts,"