Dry ground
חָֽרָבָהStrong’s H2724charavah (cha-ra-vah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Charavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “on the dry ground”, “dry ground” and “into dry ground”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.”
Meaning
- Dry land, dry ground
How it's translated
- on the dry ground 4
- the dry ground 2
- into dry ground 1
- dry ground 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Haggai 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Joshua 3:17And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
- Joshua 4:18And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
- 2 Kings 2:8And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
- Ezekiel 30:12And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
- Haggai 2:6For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Hebrew dictionary
חָֽרָבָה charavah · dry ground
dry land, dry ground
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.