Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
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Waste
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Mark 14:4
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
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חָרַב
chârab · khaw-rab'
13 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Strong's KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, × surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 34:10Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:6
Open full H2717 profile →חׇרְבָּה
chorbâh · khor-baw'
10 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
Strong's KJV usage: decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:31Strong's last: Ezekiel 38:8
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chârêb · khaw-rabe'
6 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
parched or ruined
Strong's KJV usage: desolate, dry, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 2:3Strong's last: Haggai 1:9
Open full H2720 profile →שָׁדַד
shâdad · shaw-dad'
5 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
Strong's KJV usage: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), × utterly, (lay) waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 15:1Strong's last: Nahum 3:7
Open full H7703 profile →שָׁמֵם
shâmêm · shaw-mame'
5 times translated as this KJV form93 total Strong's occurrences
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Strong's KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 21:30Strong's last: Amos 9:14
Open full H8074 profile →שַׁמָּה
shammâh · sham-maw'
3 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
ruin; by implication, consternation
Strong's KJV usage: astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 2:15Strong's last: Joel 1:7
Open full H8047 profile →ἀπώλεια
apṓleia · ap-o'-li-a
2 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal)
Strong's KJV usage: :--damnable(-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:8Strong's last: Mark 14:4
Open full G684 profile →בָּלַק
bâlaq · baw-lak'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to annihilate
Strong's KJV usage: (make) waste.
Strong's first: Isaiah 24:1Strong's last: Nahum 2:10
Open full H1110 profile →חֹרֶב
chôreb · kho'-reb
2 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
drought or desolation
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, drought, dry, heat, × utterly, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 61:4Strong's last: Jeremiah 49:13
Open full H2721 profile →מְשׁוֹאָה
mᵉshôwʼâh · meh-o-aw'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)
Strong's KJV usage: desolation, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 30:3Strong's last: Job 38:27
Open full H4875 profile →שָׁאָה
shâʼâh · shaw-aw'
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to rush; by implication, to desolate
Strong's KJV usage: be desolate, (make a) rush(-ing), (lay) waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 19:25Strong's last: Isaiah 37:26
Open full H7582 profile →בָּלָה
bâlâh · baw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)
Strong's KJV usage: consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 17:9Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 17:9
Open full H1086 profile →בָּתָה
bâthâh · baw-thaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
desolation
Strong's KJV usage: waste.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:6Strong's last: Isaiah 5:6
Open full H1326 profile →כָּלָה
kâlâh · kaw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form207 total Strong's occurrences
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, × fully, × have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 17:14Strong's last: 1 Kings 17:14
Open full H3615 profile →כִּרְסֵם
kirçêm · kir-same'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to lay waste
Strong's KJV usage: waste.
Strong's first: Psalms 80:13Strong's last: Psalms 80:13
Open full H3765 profile →נָצָה
nâtsâh · naw-tsaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to go forth, i.e. (by implication) to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also (specifically), to quarrel
Strong's KJV usage: be laid waste, runinous, strive (together).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 4:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 4:7
Open full H5327 profile →רָעָה
râʻâh · raw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Strong's KJV usage: × break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Micah 5:6Strong's last: Micah 5:6
Open full H7462 profile →שְׁמָמָה
shᵉmâmâh · shem-aw-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form57 total Strong's occurrences
devastation; figuratively, astonishment
Strong's KJV usage: (laid, × most) desolate(-ion), waste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Malachi 1:3Strong's last: Malachi 1:3
Open full H8077 profile →תֹּהוּ
tôhûw · to'-hoo
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
Strong's KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:10Strong's last: Deuteronomy 32:10
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H2723
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
H2717
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
H2717
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
H2717
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
H2717
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
H2717
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:
H2723
And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
H2723
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.
H2717
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.
H8074
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
H2723
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
H2720
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
H2720
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
H2723
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
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waste
WASTE, verb transitive [G., Latin ]
1. To diminish by gradual dissipation or loss. Thus disease wastes the patient; sorrows waste the strength and spirits.
2. To cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or by injury. Thus cattle waste their fodder when fed in the open field.
3. To expend without necessity or use; to destroy wantonly or luxuriously; to squander; to cause to be lost through wantonness or negligence. Careless people waste their fuel, their food or their property. Children waster their inheritance.
And wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke 15:13.
4. To destroy in enmity; to desolate; as, to waste an enemys country.
5. To suffer to be lost unnecessarily; or to throw away; as, to waste the blood and treasure of a nation.
6. To destroy by violence.
The Tyber insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
7. To impair strength gradually.
Now wasting years my former strength confounds.
8. To lose in idleness or misery; to wear out.
Here condemnd to waste eternal days in woe and pain.
9. To spend; to consume.
O were I able to waste it all myself, and leave you none.
10. In law, to damage, impair or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc. To go to decay. See the Noun.
11. To exhaust; to be consumed by time or mortality.
Till your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. Numbers 14:33.
12. To scatter and lose for want of use or of occupiers.
Full many a flowr is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
WASTE, verb intransitive
1. To dwindle; to be diminished; to lose bulk or substance gradually; as, the body wastes in sickness.
The barrel of meal shall not waste 1 Kings 17:14.
2. To be diminished or lost by slow dissipation, consumption or evaporation; as, water wastes by evaporation; fuel wastes in combustion.
3. To be consumed by time or mortality.
Gut man dieth, and wasteth away. Job 14:1.
WASTE, adjective
1. Destroyed; ruined.
The Sophi leaves all waste in his retreat.
2. Desolate; uncultivated; as a waste country; a waste howling wilderness. Deuteronomy 32:10.
3. Destitute; stripped; as lands laid waste
4. Superfluous; lost for want of occupiers.
--And strangled with her waste fertility.
5. Worthless; that which is rejected, or used only for mean purposes; as waste wood.
6. That of which no account is taken, or of which no value is found; as waste paper.
7. Uncultivated; untilled; unproductive.
There is yet much waste land in England.
Laid waste desolated; ruined.
WASTE, noun
1. The act of squandering; the dissipation of property through wantonness, ambition, extravagance, luxury or negligence.
For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood.
2. Consumption; loss; useless expense; any loss or destruction which is neither necessary nor promotive of a good end; a loss for which there is no equivalent; as a waste of goods or money; a waste of time; a waste of labor; a waste of words.
Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.
3. A desolate or uncultivated country. The plains of Arabia are mostly a wide waste
4. Land untilled, though capable of tillage; as the wastes in England.
5. Ground, space or place unoccupied; as the etherial waste
In the dead waste and middle of the night.
6. Region ruined and deserted.
All the leafy nation sinks at last, and Vulcan rides in triumph oer the waste
7. Mischief; destruction.
He will never, I think, in the way of waste attempt us again.
8. In law, spoil, destruction or injury done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder. waste is voluntary, as by pulling down buildings; or permissive, as by suffering them to fall for want of necessary repairs. Whatever does a lasting damage to the freehold, is a waste
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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