מְשׁוֹאָהmᵉshôwʼâh
desolation
Pronunciation: meh-o-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4875
Meanings
1. see foregoing (Zephaniah 1:15; Job 30:3; Job 38:27)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Job 30:3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
- Job 38:27 Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up?
- Zephaniah 1:15 It will be a day when the Lord’s anger is poured out— a day of terrible distress and anguish, a day of ruin and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
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).