cho.rev denotes a state of devastation marking lands, cities, and once-inhabited places.

The attested verses use the term for devastation affecting a land or city: Egypt is threatened with ruin, ancient ruined places are rebuilt, Bozrah and its cities are doomed, and a city’s threshold is marked by abandonment.

1. Devastation of lands and cities · dominant

   In Ezekiel 29:10, the singular absolute noun occurs in the announcement that Egypt’s land will be made devastated; the APB renders the verse with “a desolation of desolations and a waste.” Isaiah 61:4 places it among ancient places to be built and ruined cities to be renewed, while Jeremiah 49:13 and Zephaniah 2:14 portray a city and its threshold as marked by devastation.

   Ezekiel 29:10Isaiah 61:4Jeremiah 49:13Zephaniah 2:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding clauses with “desolation,” “desolations,” and “waste,” and also describes ruined cities and a devastated threshold. These expressions show the verse contexts rather than a fixed English equivalent for the term.