HebrewH4875Noun (Feminine)
מְשׁוֹאָה
me.sho.ah
“desolation”
3Occurrences
H4875Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)
or מְשֹׁאָה; from the same as H7722 (שׁוֹא);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
desolation, ruin
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Noun (Feminine)
Morphology Code
H:N-F
Full Description
H:N-F
Occurrences
מְשׁוֹאָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Job
2
Zephaniah
1
Key Passages
Job 30:3BSB
Gaunt from poverty and hunger,they gnawed the dry land,and the desolate wasteland by night.
Job 38:27BSB
to satisfy the parched wastelandand make it sprout with tender grass?
Zephaniah 1:15BSB
That day will bea day of wrath,a day of trouble and distress,a day of destruction and desolation,a day of darkness and gloom,a day of clouds and blackness,
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