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Jeremiah 50:38

“A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

חֹרֶבchôreb · kho'-reb
H2721 · Hebrew

Definition: drought or desolation
Derivation: a collaterally form of H2719 (חֶרֶב);
KJV renderings: desolation, drought, dry, heat, [idiom] utterly, waste.
Grammar: חֹ֥רֶב — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
Code HNcmsa
Usage: Occurs 16 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 31:40 Judges 6:37 Judges 6:39 Judges 6:40 Job 30:30

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 חֹרֶב here.

Verse 37 Verse 39

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.