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מְשׁוֹאָה

meshoa · ruin, devastation

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4875 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

meshoa (מְשׁוֹאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ruin, devastation”.

Ruin, a devastated place.

How to say it

me·sho·a

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

  1. A place destroyed and empty, without life.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • ruin ×2
  • desolation ×1

Where it appears

  • Job 30:3

    Through want and famine they are barren; they gnaw the dry land, last night desolation and ruin.

  • Job 38:27

    to satisfy the desolation and ruin, and to make sprout the shoots of grass?

  • Zephaniah 1:15

    A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and straits, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick cloud,