מַהְפֵּכָהmahpêkâh

overthrow (Isaiah 1:7; Deuteronomy 29:22; Jeremiah 49:18; Isaiah 13:19; Jeremiah 50:40)

Pronunciation: mah-pay-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4114

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 29:23 They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.’
  • Isaiah 1:7 Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see.
  • Isaiah 13:19 Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean pride, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
  • Jeremiah 49:18 It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord. “No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.
  • Jeremiah 50:40 I will destroy it as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord. “No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.
  • Amos 4:11 “I destroyed some of your cities, as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who survived were like charred sticks pulled from a fire. But still you would not return to me,” says the Lord.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).