Desolation
חׇרְבָּהStrong’s H2723chorbah (chor-bah)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chorbah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ruin”, “desolation” and “ruins of”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- A place laid waste, ruin, waste, desolation
How it's translated
- a ruin 6
- a desolation 5
- ruins of 4
- ruins 3
- a waste place 2
- waste places 2
- into a ruin 2
- the waste places 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 14
- Jeremiah 10
- Isaiah 9
- Psalms 3
- Leviticus 2
- Ezra 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
- Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- Ezra 9:9For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
- Job 3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
- Psalms 9:6O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
- Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Hebrew dictionary
חׇרְבָּה chorbah · desolation
a place laid waste, ruin, waste, desolation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “desolation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESOLATION, noun
- The act of desolating destruction or expulsion of inhabitants; destruction; ruin; waste.“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation” Matthew 12:25
- A place deprived of inhabitants, or otherwise wasted, ravaged and ruined.“How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations” Jeremiah 50:23
- A desolate state; gloominess; sadness; destitution.
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.