מַהְפֵּכָה
mahpecha · overthrow
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4114 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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mahpecha (מַהְפֵּכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “overthrow”.
A destruction that leaves a place turned upside down, like Sodom.
How to say it
mah·pe·cha
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Utter ruin, as of Sodom and Gomorrah.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- like the overthrow ×3
- As at the overthrow ×2
- as when Elohim overthrew ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 29:23
—all its land brimstone and salt, a burning; it will not be sown, and it will not sprout, and no plant will come up in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger and in his wrath—
- Isaiah 1:7
Your land is a desolation, your cities burned with fire; your ground, before your eyes strangers devour it, and it is a desolation like the overthrow by strangers.
- Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the ornament of kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like the overthrow by Elohim of Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Jeremiah 49:18
As at the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says YHWH, no one will dwell there, nor will a son of man reside in it.
- Jeremiah 50:40
As at the overthrow by Elohim of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, declares YHWH, no one will dwell there, nor will a son of man reside in it.
- Amos 4:11
I overthrew some among you as when Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from the fire; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.