שׁוֹאshôwʼ

שׁוֺא: ravage (?) (Psalms 35:17; Psalms 35:16)

Pronunciation: sho · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7722

Meanings

שׁוֺאָה: devastation, ruin, waste

1. devastation, ruin (Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 47:11; Psalms 35:8)

2. ruin, waste (Job 30:3; Job 38:27; Job 38:26)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Job 30:3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
  • Job 30:14 They come at me from all directions. They jump on me when I am down.
  • Job 38:27 Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up?
  • Psalms 35:8 So let sudden ruin come upon them! Let them be caught in the trap they set for me! Let them be destroyed in the pit they dug for me.
  • Psalms 35:17 How long, O Lord, will you look on and do nothing? Rescue me from their fierce attacks. Protect my life from these lions!
  • Psalms 63:9 But those plotting to destroy me will come to ruin. They will go down into the depths of the earth.
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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).