To dry
חָרֵבStrong’s H2717charev (cha-rev)
Appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charev is the Hebrew word usually translated “waste”, “were dried up” and “certainly”. It appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.”
Meaning
- To be dry, be dried up(Qal) to be dried, be dried up · (Pual) to be dried · (Hiphil) to dry up · (Hophal) to be dried up
- To be waste, lay waste, make desolate, be desolate, be in ruins(Qal) to be waste, be desolate · (Niphal) · (Hiphil) to lay waste, make desolate · (Hophal) to be laid waste
- To attack, smite down, slay, fight
How it's translated
- they will be waste 3
- they were dried up 2
- certainly 2
- they have made desolate 2
- so i may dry up 2
- it will be desolate 2
- kill 2
- they have been dried 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 11
- Ezekiel 7
- Jeremiah 5
- Judges 3
- 2 Kings 3
- Genesis 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 16:7And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
- Judges 16:8Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
- Judges 16:24And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
- 2 Kings 3:23And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
- 2 Kings 19:17Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
- 2 Kings 19:24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
Hebrew dictionary
חָרֵב charev · to dry
1) to be dry, be dried up 1a) (Qal) to be dried, be dried up 1b) (Pual) to be dried 1c) (Hiphil) to dry up 1d) (Hophal) to be dried up
חָרֵב charev · to destroy
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 Aramaic equivalent: cha.rav (חֲרַב "be wasted" H2718)
חָרַב charav · to slay
to attack, smite down, slay, fight
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRY, adjective
[See the Verb.]
- Destitute of moisture; free from water or wetness; arid; not moist; as dry land; dry clothes.
- Not rainy; free from rain or mist; as dry weather; a dry March or April.
- Not juicy; free from juice, sap or aqueous matter; not green; as dry wood; dry stubble; dry hay; dry leaves.
- Without tears; as dry eyes; dry mourning.
All definitions and other forms of “dry”
- Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry
- Thirsty; craving drink.
- Barren; jejune; plain; unembellished; destitute of pathos, or of that which amuses and interests; as a dry style; a dry subject; a dry discussion.
- Severe; sarcastic; wiping; as a dry remark or repartee; a dry run.
- Severe; wiping; as a dry blow; a dry basting.
- dry goods, in commerce, cloths, stuffs, silks, laces, ribbons, etc., in distinction from groceries.
DRY, verb transitive
[G., to dry to wipe; Gr., Latin See dry The primary sense is to wipe, rub, scour.]
- To free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; originally by wiping, as to dry the eyes; to exsiccate.
- To deprive of moisture by evaporation or exhalation; as, the sun dries a cloth; wind dries the earth.
- To deprive of moisture by exposure to the sun or open air.
- To deprive of natural juice, sap or greenness; as, to dry hay or plants.
- To scorch or parch with thirst; with up.“Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst” Isaiah 5:13
- To deprive of water by draining; to drain; to exhaust; as, to dry a meadow.
DRY, verb intransitive
- To grow dry; to lose moisture; to become free from moisture or juice.
- To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; sometimes with up; as, the stream dries or dries up.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.