H2721 - חֹרֶב (chôreb)

H2721 חֹרֶב (chôreb) kho'-reb

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

drought or desolation

Derivation: a collaterally form of H2719 (חֶרֶב);

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

TWOT Reference: 731b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) dryness, desolation, drought, heat

1a) dryness

1b) drought

1c) parching heat

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1372 G2738 G2742

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֹרֶב chôreb BDB Definition: 1) dryness, desolation, drought, heat 1a) dryness 1b) drought 1c) parching heat Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: a collaterally form of H2719 Same Word by TWOT Number: 731b Total KJV Occurrences: 15

Bible Occurrences (15)

31:40

6:37 6:39 6:40

30:30

4:6 25:4 25:5 61:4

36:30 49:13 50:38

29:10

2:14

1:11

Genesis 31:40

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Judges 6:37

then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only... on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.

Judges 6:39

Then Gideon said to God, Do not be angry... with me; let me speak one more time.... Please allow me... one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry........., and the ground covered... with dew.

Judges 6:40

And that night God did so. Only... the fleece was dry,... and dew covered... the ground.

Job 30:30

My skin grows black and peels..., and my bones burn with fever.

Isaiah 4:6

a shelter to [give] shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

Isaiah 25:4

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

Isaiah 25:5

like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.