חָרֵב (ḥārab) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning be waste. It appears
42 times
in 13 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H2717).
Also rendered
be dry
to dry
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 731)
Range of meaning (TWOT 731)be waste, desolate; lay waste, make desolate; be dry, dried up; drying up; parch, destroy, kill; decay, destroyer, slay
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
חָרֵב: be waste, desolate
Qalbe waste, desolate
Niphalas adjective, desolate city
Hiphillay waste, make desolate
חָרֵבverb: be dry, dried up
Qalbe dry, dried up
Pualof fresh bow-strings
Hiphilof Jehovah drying up rivers
Strong's H2717חָרַב: to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill KJV:decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, × surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.