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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְשׁוֹאָה²: n.f. desolation tree →

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 · 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 · 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.

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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).

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