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
Open full H2723 profile →חָרֵב
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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H1326
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
no direct Strong's tag
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
H7703
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
H7703
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
H7703
The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
H7703
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
H1110
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
H8074
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
H2717
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
H2717
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
H7582
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
H2717
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
H2717
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
H2723
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
no direct Strong's tag
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
no direct Strong's tag
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
no direct Strong's tag
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
H2721
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.
H2723
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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