16 occurrences in 13 translations

'Waste' in the Bible

Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

Verse ConceptsCondemnation, Examples OfBarren, LandThistlesThornsFood DefinedHerbs

And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.

Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordRivers And StreamsRoadsWellsFinding PeopleTemporary Stay In The WildernessJesus Role In Salvationgabrielmistress

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

Verse ConceptsVeilsNames Of GodGod, All knowingGod Seeing All The EarthThose Who Saw GodVisibilityOther References To God's Name

And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

Verse ConceptsShouldersBottle, UsesDeserts, SpecificThe HomelessWater ContainersWanderersThose Who Rose EarlyCarrying Other LoadsExamples Of Love For Children

And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

Verse ConceptsArchers, MenHuntingRecreationGrowing UpLiving In The WildernessGod With Specific Peoplemanhood

And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningLiving In The Wilderness

Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed Sisters

And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

Verse ConceptsChildren SufferingOther Wives

And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that same Anah who made the discovery of the water-springs in the waste land, when he was looking after the asses of his father Zibeon.

Verse ConceptsMulesThose Who Kept Stock

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be for him, so whenever he went in to the wife of his brother he would waste [it] on the ground so as not to give offspring to his brother.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningSemenNot GivingPeople With General KnowledgesexSeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsBad Luck

Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

Bible Theasaurus

Barren (62 instances)
Consume (170 instances)
Desert (358 instances)
Languish (15 instances)
Neutralize (1 instance)
Squander (1 instance)

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חרבּה 
Chorbah 
Usage: 42

שׁאה 
Sha'ah 
Usage: 6

בּלה 
Balah 
Usage: 15

בּלק 
Balaq 
Usage: 2

בּער 
Ba`ar 
burn , ... away , kindle , brutish , eaten , set , burn up , eat up , feed , heated , took , wasted
Usage: 94

בּתה 
Bathah 
Usage: 1

חלשׁ 
Chalash 
Usage: 4

חרב חרב 
Charab 
Usage: 40

חרב 
Chareb 
Usage: 10

חרב 
Choreb 
Usage: 16

כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 207

משׁאה משׁואה 
M@show'ah 
Usage: 3

נצה 
Natsah 
Usage: 11

שׁוד שׁד 
Shod 
Usage: 25

שׁדד 
Shadad 
Usage: 57

שׁאה שׁואה שׁוא 
Show' 
Usage: 13

שׁוּד 
Shuwd 
Usage: 1

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 146

שׁמּה 
Shammah 
Usage: 39

שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 89

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

תּהוּ 
Tohuw 
Usage: 20

תּולל 
Towlal 
Usage: 1

ἀπώλεια 
Apoleia 
Usage: 18

διασκορπίζω 
Diaskorpizo 
Usage: 3

πορθέω 
Portheo 
Usage: 3

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