Drought
חֹ֫רֶבStrong’s H2721chorev (cho-rev)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chorev is the Hebrew word usually translated “heat”, “dryness” and “from heat”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
Meaning
- Dryness, drought, heatdryness · drought · parching heat
- Desolation
How it's translated
- heat 3
- dryness 3
- from heat 2
- a drought 2
- like heat 1
- devastation 1
- to the heat 1
- a desolation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Judges 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
- Ezekiel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 6:37Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
- Judges 6:39And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
- Judges 6:40And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
- Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- Isaiah 4:6And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
- Isaiah 25:4For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫רֶב chorev · drought
1) dryness, drought, heat 1a) dryness 1b) drought 1c) parching heat
חֹ֫רֶב chorev · desolation
desolation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAT, noun
[Latin aestus, for haestus, or caestus.]
- heat as a cause of sensation, that is, the matter of heat is considered to be a subtil fluid, contained in a greater or less degree in all bodies.
- heat as a sensation, is the effect produced on the sentient organs of animals, by the passage of caloric, disengaged from surrounding bodies, to the organs.
- Hot air; hot weather; as the heat of the tropical climates.
- Any accumulation or concentration of the matter of heat or caloric; as the heat of the body; the heat of a furnace; a red heat; a white heat; a welding heat
All definitions and other forms of “heat”
- The state of being once heated or hot.
- A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- A single effort in running; a course at a race.
- Redness of the face; flush.
- Animal excitement; violent action or agitation of the system.
- Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as the heat of battle.
- Violence; ardor; as the heat of party.
- Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation; as the heat of passion.
- Ardor; fervency; animation in thought or discourse.
- Fermentation.
HEAT, verb transitive
[Latin odi, osus, for hodi, hosus; L aestus, for haestus, heat tide; Gr. to burn, and the English haste and hoist are probably of the same family.]
- To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to be hot; as, to heat an oven or a furnace; to heat iron.
- To make feverish; as, to heat the blood.
- To warm with passion or desire; to excite; to rouse into action.
- To agitate the blood and spirits with action; to excite animal action.
HEAT, verb intransitive
To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or extrication of latent heat
- To grow warm or hot.
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.