Misfortune
הֹוָהStrong’s H1943hovah (ho-vah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Hovah is the Hebrew word usually translated “disaster”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore 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.”
Meaning
- Ruin, disaster
How it's translated
- disaster 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
הֹוָה hovah · misfortune
ruin, disaster
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “misfortune” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MISFOR'TUNE, noun
Ill fortune; ill luck; calamity; an evil or cross accident; as loss of property at sea or by fire.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.