מַהְפֵּכָה
mahpêkâh · H4114 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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overthrowing, destruction
Causative action by which humans or deities destroy an object completely as if by turning it completely upside down
ExamplesDeuteronomy 29:23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, burned debris, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows on it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’
Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; As for your fields, strangers are devouring them in front of you; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 3
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- סְדֹםSodom 3
- עֲמֹרָהGomorrah 3
- שָׁכֵןneighbor 1
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 6 groups
- סְדֹםSodom 2
- עֲמֹרָהGomorrah 2
- אַדְמָהAdmah 1
- זוּרstranger, strange 1
- צְבֹאִיםZeboiim 1
- שָׁכֵןneighbor 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 7
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- καταστρέφω katastréphō · G2690 · to turn over, to upset, to overturn
- Greek καταστρέφω renders Hebrew מַהְפֵּכָה in LXX contexts describing divine overthrow or destruction (notably Sodom/Gomorrah), capturing the violent overturning/upset semantics core to both lexemes.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מַהְפֵּכָה denotes an overthrow, as in the recurring description of Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction "when God overthrew" them (e.g. Genesis 19:29, Amos 4:11), placing it among terms of devastating impact.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4114. mahpekah [מַהְמֵּכָה] noun feminine overthrow — always construct מַהְמֵּכַת; &…
[מַהְמֵּכָה] noun feminine overthrow — always construct מַהְמֵּכַת; & always of overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah etc., except Isa 1:7 ׳מ זָרִים, where read סְדֹם (Ew Che RSProph. 345 Di and others; also LagSemitic i. 3); yet even so probably gloss, compare StuJPTh 1877, 714; ׳מ סְדֹם Deu 29:22; Jer 49:18; and with force of verbal noun, governing accusative, ׳מ אתסֿדם אלהים Isa 13:19; Jer 50:40; Amo 4:11. compare also הָפַךְ 1b, הֲפֵכָה.
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
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