חֹרֶב
chôreb · kho'-reb
drought or desolation
Lexicon
Derivation: a collaterally form of H2719 (חֶרֶב);
drought or desolation
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: desolation, drought, dry, heat, [idiom] utterly, waste.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the head, the highest › the house, what is within
To separate and protect of the head, the highest of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֹרֶב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- from the heat2 · 13%
- the drought1 · 6%
- only, and it be dry1 · 6%
- let it now be dry1 · 6%
- for it was dry1 · 6%
- with heat1 · 6%
- as the heat1 · 6%
- even the heat1 · 6%
- the waste1 · 6%
- to the heat1 · 6%
- a waste1 · 6%
- a drought1 · 6%
- utterly1 · 6%
- desolation1 · 6%
- for a drought1 · 6%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.