Definition

properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation

Etymology

feminine of H2721 (חֹרֶב);

Where the KJV renders it

• decayed place
• desolate (place
• -tion)
• destruction
• (laid) waste (place)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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