Original Language Studio
Isaiah 42:15
“I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
חָרַבchârab · khaw-rab'
H2717 · Hebrew
H2717 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
- Derivation
- or חֲרֵב; a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, [idiom] surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
- Grammar
- אַחֲרִ֤יב — verb Hiphil, imperfect, 1st person, common, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 42 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 8:13Genesis 8:13Judges 16:7Judges 16:8Judges 16:24
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חָרַב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.