cha.rev describes a place or city left waste and without inhabitants, set against later habitation or restoration.

The attested use describes land, cities, and a house as left waste or uninhabited. In the city and land passages, this condition is contrasted with fortification, habitation, or renewed pastoral settlement; in Haggai it describes the house standing in that condition while people dwell in their own houses.

1. Places and structures left waste or uninhabited · dominant

   The adjective describes waste cities and land: in Ezekiel 36:35 the APB renders cities as “waste and desolate and ruined” before they become fortified and inhabited, while Ezekiel 36:38 speaks of “waste cities” later filled with people. In Jeremiah 33:10 and Jeremiah 33:12, the place is described as without man or beast before cities again contain shepherds’ habitations; Haggai 1:4 and Haggai 1:9 apply the masculine singular form to the house that “lies desolate.”

   Ezekiel 36:35Ezekiel 36:38Haggai 1:4Haggai 1:9Jeremiah 33:10Jeremiah 33:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the condition with “desolate,” “waste,” and, in Ezekiel 36:35, within “waste and desolate and ruined cities.” These English expressions confirm the verse-level setting rather than isolate a separate rendering for each occurrence.