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Strong's #2719 - חֶרֶב
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- sword, knife
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- knife
- tools for cutting stone
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2199) brh (ההרב HhRB) AC: Waste CO: Sword AB: ?: [from: rh- heat]
V) brh (ההרב HhRB) - Waste: A dry wasteland. Also a place that has been laid waste and made desolate. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (41): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hophal, Pual, Participle) waste, dry, desolate, slay, decay, destroy - Strongs: H2717 (חָרַב), H2718 (חֲרַב)
Nf) brh (ההרב HhRB) - I. Sword:A weapon used to lay waste a city. II. Waste:A dry or desolate place. KJV (423): sword, knife, dagger, axe, mattock - Strongs: H2719 (חֶרֶב), H2720 (חָרֵב)
Nf1) ebrh (ההרבה HhRBH) - Waste: KJV (50): waste, desolate, desert, decayed, dry land, dry ground - Strongs: H2723 (חָרְבָּה), H2724 (חָרָבָה)
gm) brfh (ההורב HhWRB) - I. Heat: II. Waste: KJV (16): heat, dry, drought, waste, desolation - Strongs: H2721 (חֹרֶב)
jm) nfbrh (ההרבונ HhRBWN) - Drought: KJV (1): drought - Strongs: H2725 (חֲרָבוֹן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, Zinjirli חרב; Arabic 
dart, javelin) — absolute חֶ֫רֶב Genesis 3:24 +; חָ֑רֶב Exodus 17:13 +; construct חֶ֫רֶב Deuteronomy 33:29 +; suffix חַרְבִּי Exodus 15:9 13t.; חַרְבְּךָ Genesis 27:40 7t.; חֵרְבֶּ֑ךָ 1 Samuel 17:33; Psalm 17:13; חַרְבּוֺ Numbers 22:23 24t.; חַרְבְּכֶם Jeremiah 2:30; Ezekiel 33:26; חַרְבָּם Psalm 37:15; Psalm 44:4; plural חֲרָבוֺת Isaiah 21:15 5t.; construct חַרְבוֺת Joshua 5:2 2t.; suffix חַרְבוֺתָיו Ezekiel 26:9; חַרְבוֺתָם Isaiah 2:4 5t.; חַרְבֹתֵיהֶם Micah 4:3 2t.; — 1. a. sword, as weapon of war Genesis 48:22 (E), Judges 7:14,20; 1 Samuel 21:9, and so in all periods; two-edged (short) sword וְלָהּ שְׁנֵי פֵיוֺ֖ת גֹּמֶד אָרְכָּהּ׳ח Judges 3:16, compare מִּיּוֺת׳ח Proverbs 5:4 (in simile), מִּיפִיּוֺת׳ח Psalm 149:6; see also ׳צוּר ח edge of sword Psalm 89:44.
b. gird on sword = ׳חָגַר הח 1 Samuel 17:39; 1 Samuel 25:13 (3t. in verse); Psalm 45:4 (׳הח׳ח עַל יָרֵך), שִׂים על ירך Exodus 32:27, compare especially 2 Samuel 20:8.
c. draw the sword ׳הֵרִיק הח Exodus 15:9; Leviticus 26:33; Ezekiel 5:2,12; Ezekiel 12:14; Ezekiel 28:7, ׳הוציא הח Ezekiel 21:8; Ezekiel 21:10, ׳פתח הח Psalm 37:14; Ezekiel 21:33, נטשׁ Isaiah 21:15 (Gr Che לטשׁ see below); usually ׳שׁלף הח Numbers 22:23,31; Joshua 5:13; Judges 3:22; Judges 8:10,20; Judges 9:54; 1 Samuel 17:51; 1 Samuel 31:4 = 1 Chronicles 10:4; 1 Chronicles 21:16, and as characteristic of warriors ׳שֹׁלֵף ח Judges 20:2,15,17,25,35,46; 2 Samuel 24:9; 2 Kings 3:26; 1 Chronicles 21:5 (twice in verse); ׳וַתִּדְבַּק יָדוֺ אֶלהַֿח 2 Samuel 23:10, insert also in "" 1 Chronicles 11:13 (Dr).
d. whet, sharpen the sword ׳לטשׁ הח Psalm 7:13 (compare Isaiah 21:15 above), but also שׁנן Deuteronomy 32:41 compare Psalm 64:4, הוּחַדָּה Ezekiel 21:14; Ezekiel 21:16.
e. put up the sword into the sheathאֶלנְֿדָנָהּ ׳הֵשִׁיב הח 1 Chronicles 21:27 ( sheath of sword is elsewhere תַּעַר 1 Samuel 7:51; 2 Samuel 20:8; Jeremiah 47:6; Ezekiel 21:8).
f. slay with sword הרג׳בח Joshua 10:11; Joshua 13:22 +; in ימותו אנשׁים 1 Samuel 2:33, insert בְּחֶרֶב before אנשׁיםᵐ5 We Dr; rarely ׳הכה בח Joshua 11:10; 2 Kings 19:37 = Isaiah 37:38; very often ׳הִכָּה לְפִיחֿ smite according to the mouth of the sword i.e. as the sword can devour ( 2 Samuel 2:26; 11:25) = without quarter Numbers 21:24 (E) Deuteronomy 13:16; a Deuteronomy 20:13; Joshua 11:11,12,14 (all D) Judges 18:27; Judges 21:10; 1 Kings 10:25; Job 1:15,17; also with העיר as sole object Joshua 8:24; Joshua 10:28,30,32,35,37, compare Joshua 10:39; Joshua 19:47; Judges 1:8,25; Judges 20:37; 1 Samuel 22:19 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 15:14; ׳הרג לפיחֿ Genesis 34:26 (J); ׳החרים לפיחֿ Deuteronomy 13:16b (including הָעִיר in object), Joshua 6:21; 1 Samuel 15:8, ׳חלשׁ לפיחֿ Exodus 17:13 (E); ׳נפל לפיחֿ Joshua 8:24; Judges 4:16; ׳ל֗֗֗פיחֿ׳וַיָּהָם י Judges 4:15; — (׳לפיחֿ is chiefly in Joshua and Judges (21t.), in Hexateuch only J E D; but Job post-exilic).
g.׳אכלה הח etc., of the sword as devouring: — תּאֹכֵל חַרְבִּי בָשָׂר Deuteronomy 32:42 (poetry), 2 Samuel 2:26; 2 Samuel 11:25; 2 Samuel 18:8; Isaiah 1:10; Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 46:10,14; Nahum 2:14.
h. slain by sword is ׳חֲלַלחִֿ Numbers 19:16 (P) and frequently Ezekiel , ׳חַלְלֵיחֿ Ezekiel 31:17,18; Ezekiel 32:21,25,28,29,30,32; Ezekiel 35:8 ׳מְחֻלְלֵי ח Ezekiel 35:26 < Co ׳חלליחֿ (on text of Ezekiel 32:20,22,31see Co).
i.׳שְׁבֻיוֺת ח Genesis 31:26 are captives of (taken by) sword.
j. sword frequently agent of ׳י Judges 7:20; Isaiah 34:6; Jeremiah 12:12; Jeremiah 47:6 etc., — so Deuteronomy 28:22, but read חֹרֶב see below I. חרב (compare on other hand 1 Samuel 17:47); note especially Genesis 3:24 ׳לַהַט החהַמִּתְהַמֶּכֶת; in poetry ׳לַהַכ ח Nahum 3:3, ׳בְּרַק ח Deuteronomy 32:41.
k.׳ח figurative of tongue Psalm 57:5; compare Psalm 59:8; figurative of violence war, etc., Genesis 27:40; in simile Proverbs 5:4 (of grievous end of dealings with strange women).
2 knife צֻרִים׳ח flint knives for use in circumcision Joshua 5:2,3(see We Skizzen iii, 166); Ezekiel 5:1,2חַדָּה תַּעַר׳ח הַגַּלָּבִים (according to Co use of sword as razor is significant).
3 of tools used in hewing stoneחַרְבְּךָ הֵנַפְתָּ עליה Exodus 20:25; ׳יִתֹּץ בח Ezekiel 26:9, according to most = tools, axes, 'steel' (Co ' Eisen '), but possibly swords as implement ready to hand; 2 Chronicles 34:6 Qr בְּחַרְבֹתֵיהֶם with their tools; read perhaps בְּחָרְבֹתֵיהֶם in their ruins, Be, who compare Psalm 109:10; see חָרְבָּה below II. חרב (ᵐ5ᵑ9 omit חרב).
חֶרֶב [in pause חָֽרֶב, with suffix חַרְבִּי, pl. חֲרָבוֹת, const. חַרְבּוֹת], f.
(1) a sword [“as laying waste; others, as having the signification edge, comp. حرف, ܚܪܰܦ, to be sharp, acrid, whence حَرفُْ edge of a sword”]. (Arab. حَرْبُ, Syr. ܚܰܪܒܐܳ, whence Greek ἅρπη, see Bochart, Hieroz. ii. p. 760.) הִכָּה לְפִי ׃חרֶב to smite with the edge of the sword; to kill with the sword, Deuteronomy 13:16, 20:13 Joshua 6:21, 8:24 10:28.
(2) It is applied to other cutting instruments; e.g. a circumcising knife, Joshua 5:2, Joshua 5:3 a knife, or razor, Ezekiel 5:1 a graying tool, Exodus 20:25 an axe, Ezekiel 26:9. Poetically used of the curved tusks of the hippopotamus, Job 40:19.
(3) drought, Deuteronomy 28:22. [This meaning is not needed in this passage; so Thes.]
