מַשּׁוּאָה
mashshûwʼâh · H4876 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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ruins
State in which buildings and infrastructure have been totally destroyed
ExamplesPsalm 73:18 You indeed put them on slippery ground; You dropped them into ruin.
Psalm 74:3 Step toward the irreparable ruins; The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נֶצַחforever 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֹּלall, every, whole 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 4
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
- שֹׁד shôd · H7701 · violence, devastation, plundering
- Common Hebrew term for destruction/devastation; semantically overlaps with מַשּׁוּאָה in contexts of ruin and calamity.
- שֶׁבֶר sheber · H7667 · breaking, breach, injury
- Hebrew noun for destruction/breaking; often used in contexts of calamity and ruin parallel to other destruction terminology.
- חׇרְבָּה chorbâh · H2723 · desolation, ruin, uninhabitable place
- Hebrew noun for desolation/waste places; closely related semantically to מַשּׁוּאָה in describing devastated conditions.
Contrasting words 2 words
- בִּנְיָן binyân · H1146 · building, structure
- Building/construction stands as lexical opposite to destruction; represents the positive counterpart to desolation.
- שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm · H7965 · completely, wholly, peace
- Peace/prosperity represents the opposite state to desolation and destruction; lexically contrasts the calamity and ruin denoted by מַשּׁוּאָה.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἐρήμωσις erḗmōsis · G2050 · destroyed, destruction, desolation
- Greek term for desolation/destruction, standard LXX equivalent for Hebrew destruction vocabulary; translational equivalent for the concept of ruin and devastation.
- ἀφανισμός aphanismós · G854 · to cease to exist, to disappear, to die
- Greek term denoting destruction or ruin; can serve as translation equivalent for Hebrew words describing devastation and desolation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impact002001001024
- The word denotes desolation or destruction, the result of a destructive impact, closely related to its cognate מְשׁוֹאָה.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4876. mashshuoth מַשּׁוּאוֺת noun feminine plural deceptions Psa 73:18; Psa 74:3, but…
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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