sho · ruin, devastation, storm

What it means

sho (שׁוֹא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ruin, devastation, storm”.

Desolation, devastation; a storm that lays waste.

How to say it

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 sudden disaster.
2. A devastating storm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• ruin ×5
• desolation ×3
• like a storm ×2
• devastation ×1
• ravages ×1
• storm ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Job 30:3

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

• Job 30:14

  As through a wide breach they come; under the desolation they roll about.

• Job 38:27

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

• Psalms 35:8

  Let ruin come upon him that he does not know, and his net that he hid catch him; with ruin let him fall into it.

• Psalms 35:17

  Adonai, how long will you look on? Bring back my soul from their ravages, from the young lions my only one.

• Psalms 63:9

  But they who seek my soul for ruin will go into the lowest parts of the earth.

• Proverbs 1:27

  when your dread comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

• Proverbs 3:25

  Do not be afraid of sudden dread, or of the ruin of the wicked when it comes;

• Isaiah 10:3

  And what will you do on the day of visitation, and in the storm that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

• Isaiah 47:11

  And there will come upon you evil whose dawn you will not know; and there will fall upon you disaster that you will not be able to make expiation for; and there will come upon you suddenly ruin that you will not know.

• Ezekiel 38:9

  And you will go up; like a storm you will come; like a cloud to cover the land you will be, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.

• 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,

And 1 more times.