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# הֹוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1943

**ruin** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ruin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1943/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֹוָה: n.f. ruin, disaster [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1943/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ruin, disaster (cf. sub הַוָּה) Ez 7:26(×2) הֹוָה עַל הֹוָה תָבוֹא disaster shall come upon disaster, Is 47:11 וְתִפֹּל עָלַיִךְ הֹוָה disaster shall fall upon thee (‖ רָעָה, שֹׁאָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: disaster (3).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 7:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.7.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.7.26/#tree)

הֹוָ֤ה עַל־הֹוָה֙ תָּב֔וֹא וּשְׁמֻעָ֥ה אֶל־שְׁמוּעָ֖ה תִּֽהְיֶ֑ה וּבִקְשׁ֤וּ חָזוֹן֙ מִנָּבִ֔יא וְתוֹרָה֙ תֹּאבַ֣ד מִכֹּהֵ֔ן וְעֵצָ֖ה מִזְּקֵנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* disaster to disaster it.will.come and report to report it.will.be and they.will.seek a.vision from a.prophet and instruction it.will.be.lost from.\[the\] priest and counsel from elders

*JPS 1917:* Calamity shall come upon calamity, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and instruction shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

[Isaiah 47:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.47.11/#tree)

וּבָ֧א עָלַ֣יִךְ רָעָ֗ה לֹ֤א תֵדְעִי֙ שַׁחְרָ֔הּ וְתִפֹּ֤ל עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ הֹוָ֔ה לֹ֥א תוּכְלִ֖י כַּפְּרָ֑הּ וְתָבֹ֨א עָלַ֧יִךְ פִּתְאֹ֛ם שׁוֹאָ֖ה לֹ֥א תֵדָֽעִי׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.come on you calamity \[which\].not you.will.know to charm.it.away and it.will.fall on you disaster \[which\].not you.will.be.able to cover.it and it.will.come on you suddenly devastation \[which\].not you.will.know

*JPS 1917:* Yet shall evil came upon thee; thou shalt not know how to charm it away; and calamity shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away; and ruin shall come upon thee suddenly, before thou knowest.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1943.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1943/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).