2723 - chorbah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: חָרְבָּה
Transliteration: chorbah
Definition (short): ruins
Definition (full): waste, desolation, ruin

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from chareb
Definition: waste, desolation, ruin
NASB Translation: deserts (1), desolation (4), desolations (1), ruin (6), ruined homes (1), ruins (11), waste (7), waste places (10), wastes (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Feminine of choreb; properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation -- decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).

see HEBREW choreb

KJV: And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
NASB: 'I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
KJV: And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
NASB: 'You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
KJV: And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
NASB: In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding ruins,
KJV: For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
NASB: "For we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
KJV: With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
NASB: With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;