Strong’s H4875 · Hebrew
מְשׁוֹאָה
mᵉshôwʼâh · meh-o-aw'
Origin or מְשֹׁאָה; from the same as שׁוֹא (H7722);
Meaning (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)
In the King James Version desolation, waste.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Job 30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- Job 38:27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
- Zephaniah 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
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.