Definition

drought or desolation

Etymology

a collaterally form of H2719 (חֶרֶב);

Word family

• חֶרֶב chereb

How the KJV renders it

• desolation
• drought
• dry
• heat
• utterly
• waste

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.