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# מַהְפֵּכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4114

**overthrow** — used 6 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

overthrow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4114/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַהְפֵּכָה: n.f. overthrow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4114/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. overthrow—always cstr. מַהְפֵּכַת; & always of overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah etc., except Is 1:7 מ׳ זָרִים, where read סְדֹם (Ew Che RSProph. 345 Di al.; also LagSem i. 3); yet even so prob. gloss, cf Stud.JPTh 1877, 714; מ׳ סְדֹם Dt 29:22 Je 49:18; and with force of verbal noun, governing acc., מ׳ אלהים את־סדם Is 13:19 Je 50:40 Am 4:11. Cf. also הָפַךְ 1 b, הֲפֵכָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the overthrow (5); overthrow (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 13:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.19/#tree)

וְהָיְתָ֤ה בָבֶל֙ צְבִ֣י מַמְלָכ֔וֹת תִּפְאֶ֖רֶת גְּא֣וֹן כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־סְדֹ֖ם וְאֶת־עֲמֹרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be Babylon \[the\].beauty of.kingdoms the.splendor of.the.pride of.\[the\].Chaldeans like the.overthrow of.God (et) Sodom and (et) Gomorrah

*JPS 1917:* And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

[Isaiah 1:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.7/#tree)

אַרְצְכֶ֣ם שְׁמָמָ֔ה עָרֵיכֶ֖ם שְׂרֻפ֣וֹת אֵ֑שׁ אַדְמַתְכֶ֗ם לְנֶגְדְּכֶם֙ זָרִים֙ אֹכְלִ֣ים אֹתָ֔הּ וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת זָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* land your \[is\].a.desolation cities your \[have.been\].burned fire ground your to before you strangers \[are\].devouring it and desolation \[is\].like.\[the\] overthrow of.strangers

*JPS 1917:* Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4114/): 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).