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# מְשׁוֹאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4875

**desolation** — 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

desolation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4875/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְשׁוֹאָה²: n.f. desolation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4875/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. desolation;— sg. only in שֹׁאָה וּמ׳ Zp 1:15; Jb 30:3; 38:27, v. above; pl. (מַשּׁוּאוֹת, read) מְשׁוֹאוֹת, so Klo Hup-Now CheComm. Bae Du ψ 74:3 ruins (of temple) and 73:18 ruins (of one’s life, fig.; but Du here der.from נשׁא: deceptions, v. p. 674; yet cf. synon. שַׁמָּה v 19).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 38:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.27/#tree)

לְהַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ שֹׁ֭אָהוּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ מֹ֣צָא דֶֽשֶׁא׃

*Word for word:* to satisfy devastation and desolation and to cause.to.sprout a.going.forth of.fresh.grass

*JPS 1917:* To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

[Job 30:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/#tree)

בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* by poverty and by hunger barren \[those who\].gnaw a.dry.region yesterday devastation and desolation

*JPS 1917:* They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4875.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4875/): 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).