הֲפֵכָה
hafecha · overthrow
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2018 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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hafecha (הֲפֵכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “overthrow”.
Complete destruction, in which everything is turned upside down.
How to say it
ha·fe·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
- Destruction that turns everything upside down, as at Sodom.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Genesis 19:29
So it was that when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, Elohim remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overturning, when he overturned the cities in which Lot had lived.