חָרַב chârab — to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Translated in the KJV as decay, desolate, destroy, dry, slay, × surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
or חֲרֵב; a primitive root; to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill.
chârab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 10Imperative 4Perfect (qatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Participle (active) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
Hoph'al
Infinitive absolute 1Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (passive) 1
And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
Niph'al
Participle (passive) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 2
And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›