מְשׁוֹאָה
mᵉshôwʼâh · H4875 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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total desolation, total destruction
State in which buildings and infrastructure have been totally destroyed
ExamplesJob 30:3 “From poverty and famine they are gaunt, They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
Job 38:27 To satisfy the waste and desolate land, And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of anger, A day of trouble and distress, A day of destruction and desolation, A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness,
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 is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׂבַעto be satiated 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יוֹםday, time 1
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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Near synonyms 3 words
- שַׁמָּה shammâh · H8047 · desolation, horror
- Common Hebrew noun for desolation, devastation, or appalling waste, from the root שׁמם. Widely used in prophetic literature to describe ruined, desolate conditions parallel to the sense of מְשׁוֹאָה.
- שְׁמָמָה shᵉmâmâh · H8077 · desolation, horror
- Hebrew noun denoting desolation, wasteland, or devastated place, from the root שׁמם. Frequently appears in contexts describing ruined cities and lands, semantically very close to מְשׁוֹאָה as a term for utter waste.
- חׇרְבָּה chorbâh · H2723 · desolation, ruin, uninhabitable place
- Hebrew noun for ruin, waste place, or desolation, from the root חרב. Commonly used to describe devastated cities and lands, often in parallel with other desolation terms.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐρήμωσις erḗmōsis · G2050 · destroyed, destruction, desolation
- Greek noun denoting desolation or laying waste, used in LXX and NT as translation equivalent for Hebrew devastation/desolation terms including those from the שׁמם and related root families.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impact002001001024
- The word denotes desolation or waste, the result of a destructive impact upon a land or people.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4875. meshoah מְשֹׁאָה מְשׁוֺאָה, noun feminine desolation; — 1 singular only in וּמ…
מְשֹׁאָה מְשׁוֺאָה, noun feminine desolation; —
1 singular only in וּמ ׳שֹׁאָה Zep 1:15; Job 30:3; Job 38:27, see foregoing; plural (מַשּׁוּאוֺת, read) מְשׁוֺאוֺת, so Klo Hup-Now CheComm. Bae Du Psa 74:3 ruins (of temple) and Psa 73:18 ruins (of one's life, figurative; but Du here derives from נשׁא: deceptions; yet compare synonym שַׁמָּה Psa 73:19).
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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