Strong’s H4288 · Hebrew
מְחִתָּה
mᵉchittâh · mekh-it-taw'
Origin from חָתָה (H2846);
Meaning properly, a dissolution; concretely, a ruin, or (abstractly) consternation
In the King James Version destruction, dismaying, ruin, terror.
In 11 verses of the King James Version
- Psalms 89:40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
- Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
- Proverbs 10:15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- Proverbs 10:29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 13:3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
- Proverbs 14:28In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
- Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
- Proverbs 21:15It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
- Isaiah 54:14In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
- Jeremiah 17:17Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
- Jeremiah 48:39They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.