Mᵉshôwʼâh — H4875

Definition

feminine noun

(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)

1. desolation, ruin

Usually translated as

waste, desolation

Origin

or mᵉshôʼâh; from the same as H7722

• Same as Shôwʼ (H7722)

Greek equivalents

• aphanismós (G854)

Occurrences

Mᵉshôwʼâh occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (2), Zephaniah (1)

• Job 30:3 — For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste (וּמְשֹׁאָֽה).
• Job 38:27 — To satisfy the desolate and waste (וּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה) ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
• Zephaniah 1:15 — That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation (וּמְשׁוֹאָ֔ה), a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,