הֲפֵכָה
hăphêkâh · H2018 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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overthrow, destruction
Causative action by which humans or deities destroy an object completely as if by turning it completely upside down
ExamplesGenesis 19:29 So it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תָּוֶךְmiddle 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שׁוֹא shôwʼ · H7722 · total desolation, total destruction, devastating storm
- Hebrew noun denoting devastating destruction or ruin, often appearing in contexts of divine judgment and catastrophic overthrow. While broader than הֲפֵכָה in scope (can denote any calamitous destruction), it is functionally interchangeable in contexts describing the result of violent overthrow.
In the other Testament 1 word
- καταστροφή katastrophḗ · G2692 · to cause harm, to cause ruin to, complete ruin
- Greek noun denoting overthrow or destruction, the standard LXX and NT translation equivalent for Hebrew terms describing catastrophic overthrow (cf. the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah). Direct lexical equivalent for the concept of overthrow.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- הֲפֵכָה denotes an overthrow or destruction, the violent ruin brought upon a place.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2018. haphekah הֲפֵכָה noun feminine overthrow (compare especially Assyrian abiktu DlW),…
הֲפֵכָה noun feminine overthrow (compare especially Assyrian abiktu DlW), of the cities (of the plain) Gen 19:29; compare [מַהְמֵּכָה] and הָפַךְ 1b.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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