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)
Same root
- מְשׁוֹאָהmᵉshôwʼâh · H4875(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)
- שׂוֹאsôwʼ · H7721a rising
- שָׁוְאshâvᵉʼ · H7723evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)
- שִׁיאוֹןShîyʼôwn · H7866Shijon, a place in Palestine
- תְּשֻׁאָהtᵉshuʼâh · H8663a crashing or loud clamor
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.
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).