אֲדָמָה חֲרֵבָה, אֶרֶץ חֲרֵבָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

dry land / arid land / waste (desolate) land

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Dry land after drought; desolation. Figuratively: total destruction.

(“And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.” – Genesis 8:13; also: “A flood came and left the world desolate? / And none can see the face of the barren land.” – Yehuda Halevi, A Flood Came)