מַפָּלָהmappâlâh

מַפָּלָה: a ruin (Isaiah 17:1)

Pronunciation: map-paw-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4654

Meanings

מַפֵּלָה: id. (Isaiah 23:13; Isaiah 25:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Isaiah 17:1 This message came to me concerning Damascus: “Look, the city of Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins.
  • Isaiah 23:13 Look at the land of Babylonia— the people of that land are gone! The Assyrians have handed Babylon over to the wild animals of the desert. They have built siege ramps against its walls, torn down its palaces, and turned it to a heap of rubble.
  • Isaiah 25:2 You turn mighty cities into heaps of ruins. Cities with strong walls are turned to rubble. Beautiful palaces in distant lands disappear and will never be rebuilt.

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).