Overthrow
הֲפֵכָהStrong’s H2018haphekhah (ha-phe-khah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Haphekhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “overthrow”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.”
Meaning
- Overthrow
How it's translated
- the overthrow 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
הֲפֵכָה haphekhah · overthrow
overthrow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “overthrow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OVERTHROW, verb transitive
[See Throw.]
- To turn upside down.
- To throw down.
- To ruin; to demolish.
- To defeat; to conquer; to vanquish; as, to overthrow an army or an enemy.
All definitions and other forms of “overthrow”
- To subvert; to destroy; as, to overthrow the constitution or state; to overthrow religion.
O'VERTHROW, noun
- The state of being overturned or turned off the basis.
- Ruin; destruction; as the overthrow of the state.
- Defeat; discomfiture; as the overthrow of enemies.
- Degradation.
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.