Ruins
הֲרִיסוּתStrong’s H2035harisut (ha-ri-sut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Harisut is the Hebrew word usually translated “destruction your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.”
Meaning
- Destruction, ruin, overthrow
How it's translated
- destruction your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
הֲרִיסוּת harisut · ruins
destruction, ruin, overthrow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ruin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RU'IN, noun
[Latin ruo, to fall, to rush down.]
- Destruction; fall; overthrow; defeat; that change of any thing which destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; as the ruin of a house; the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution of government; the ruin of health; the ruin of commerce; the ruin of public or private happiness; the ruin of a project.
- Mischief; bane; that which destroys.
- ruin more generally ruins, the remains of a decayed or demolished city, house, fortress, or any work of art or other thing; as the ruins of Balbec, Palmyra or Persepolis; the ruins of a wall; a castle in ruins.
- The decayed or enfeebled remains of a natural object; as, the venerable old man presents a great mind in ruins.
All definitions and other forms of “ruin”
- The cause of destruction.“They were the ruin of him and of all Israel” 2 Chronicles 28:23
- To demolish; to pull down, burn, or otherwise destroy; as, to ruin a city or an edifice.
- To subvert; to destroy; as, to ruin a state or government.
- To destroy; to bring to an end; as, to ruin commerce or manufactures.
- To destroy in any manner; as, to ruin health or happiness; to ruin reputation.
- To counteract; to defeat; as, to ruin a plan or project.
- To deprive of felicity or fortune.
- To impoverish; as, to be ruined by speculation.
- To bring to everlasting misery; as, to ruin the soul.
RU'IN, verb intransitive
- To fall into ruins.
- To run to ruin; to fall into decay or be dilapidated.
- To be reduced; to be brought to poverty or misery.
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.