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חֹרֶב H2721
H2721 is the Hebrew word חֹרֶב, transliterated chôreb and said kho'-reb. The King James Version most often renders it heat.
What it means
drought or desolation.
Where it comes from
a collaterally form of H2719 (חֶרֶב).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 15 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: desolation, drought, dry, heat, [idiom] utterly, waste.
Verses using חֹרֶב
All 14 verses, quoted in full.
Genesis 31:40 · KJV
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Judges 6:37 · KJV
Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
Judges 6:39 · KJV
And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
Judges 6:40 · KJV
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
Isaiah 4:6 · KJV
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Isaiah 25:4 · KJV
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah 25:5 · KJV
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah 61:4 · KJV
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
Jeremiah 36:30 · KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jeremiah 49:13 · KJV
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Jeremiah 50:38 · KJV
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.
Ezekiel 29:10 · KJV
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
Zephaniah 2:14 · KJV
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Haggai 1:11 · KJV
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Common questions
What does Strong's H2721 mean?
H2721 is the Hebrew word חֹרֶב (chôreb), meaning drought or desolation.
How is H2721 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it heat (4 times), drought (3 times), waste (2 times), only and it be dry (1 time), now be dry (1 time), among others.
How many times does H2721 appear in the Bible?
חֹרֶב (chôreb) is tagged in 14 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H2721 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: a collaterally form of H2719 (חֶרֶב).
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