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ḥrbh, ḥrbtˀ (ḥarbā, ḥarbṯā) n.f. ruin
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ruin
JLAtg, CPA, Sam, Syr, JBA
TgJ Jer25:11↗ וֻתהֵי כָל אַרעָא הָדָא לְחָרבָא לְצָדוּ‏ ; P Ez33:24↗ ܐܝܠܝܢ ܕܥܡ݁ܪܝܢ ܒܚܪ̈ܒܬܐ ܗܠܝܢ ܕܐܪܥܐ ܕܐܝܣܪܝܠ‏ ; SM 24(20):109.1(17)↗ קמו גרפונה לכולה חרבתא‏ : they went and scraped clean the entire ruin
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ruined area of a city
Syr
apap 120:2 ܘܓܪ݁ܪܝܢ ܗܘܘ ܠܗ ܒܟܠ ܫ̈ܘܩܐ ܘܚܪ̈ܒܬܐ ܕܡܕܝܢܬܐ‏ : they were dragging him through the all the market streets and ruins of the city [the point of the ruins is that the streets there are rocky rather than smooth]
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desert
Syr
P Ez13:4↗ ܬ̈ܥܠܐ ܒܚܪ̈ܒܬܐ‏
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JLAtg properly חַרבָא (and hence easily confused with the emphatic of ḥrb "sword") but often with Hebrew חָרבָא
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See also s.v. ḥwrbh.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 486[254]DJBA: 481bJastrow: 293J. Payne-Smith: 155fTal Sam: 293DCPA[Schulthess]: [69]

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