King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4875
Transliteration: meshoah
Phonetic Spelling: (meh-o-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: desolation
Meaning: desolation
Word Summary
meshoah: desolation
Original Word: מְשׁוֹאָהTransliteration: meshoah
Phonetic Spelling: (meh-o-aw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: desolation
Meaning: desolation
Strong's Concordance
desolation, waste Or mshoah {mesh-o-aw'}; from the same as show'; (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck) -- desolation, waste.
see HEBREW show'
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4875. meshoah
מְשֹׁאָה מְשׁוֺאָה, noun feminine desolation; —
1 singular only in וּמ ׳שֹׁאָה Zephaniah 1:15; Job 30:3; 38:27, see foregoing; plural (מַשּׁוּאוֺת, read) מְשׁוֺאוֺת, so Klo Hup-Now CheComm. Bae Du Psalm 74:3 ruins (of temple) and 73:18 ruins (of one's life, figurative; but Du here derives from נשׁא: deceptions; yet compare synonym שַׁמָּה 73:19).