Strong’s H7722 · Hebrew
שׁוֹא
shôwʼ · sho
Origin or (feminine) שׁוֹאָה; or שֹׁאָה; from an unused root meaning to rush over;
Meaning a tempest; by implication, devastation
In the King James Version desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
In 12 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 30:14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
- Job 38:27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
- Psalms 35:8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
- Psalms 35:17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
- Psalms 63:9But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Proverbs 3:25Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
- Isaiah 10:3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
- Isaiah 47:11Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
- Ezekiel 38:9Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
- 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.