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הֹוָה

hôvâh · H1943 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. disaster

    Process by which events take place that cause damage, distress, hurt, and/or loss of life

    Examples

    Isaiah 47:11 “But evil will come on you Which you will not know how to charm away; And disaster will fall on you For which you cannot atone; And destruction about which you do not know Will come on you suddenly.

    Ezekiel 7:26 ‘Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the Law will be lost from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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הֹוָה denotes mischief or disaster, a danger closely related to its cognate form הַוָּה, describing calamity piled upon calamity in the prophetic oracles of judgment.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

הָיָה hâyâh · H1961 · to be, to become, to serve as · 3561×הָוָא hâvâʼ · H1934 · to be, to become · 71×הַוָּה havvâh · H1942 · desire, interests, disaster · 16×הָוָא hâvâʼ · H1933 · be, have · 6×הֹוָהhôvâh · H1943הַיָּה hayâh · H1962 · desire, interests, disaster · 0×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1943. hovah הֹוָה noun feminine ruin, disaster (compare below הַוָּה) Eze 7:26 תָבוֺא…
H1943. hovah
הֹוָה noun feminine ruin, disaster (compare below הַוָּה) Eze 7:26 תָבוֺא הֹוָה עַל הֹוָה disaster shall come upon disaster, Isa 47:11 הֹוָה עָלַיִךְ וְתִמֹּל disaster shall fall upon thee (|| שֹׁאָה רָעָה,).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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