Overthrow
מַהְפֵּכָהStrong’s H4114mahpekhah (mah-pe-khah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mahpekhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like overthrow of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:”
Meaning
- Overthrow, destructionalways of Sodom and Gomorrah
How it's translated
- like overthrow of 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Amos 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Jeremiah 49:18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
- Jeremiah 50:40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
- Amos 4:11I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
מַהְפֵּכָה mahpekhah · overthrow
1) overthrow, destruction 1a) always of Sodom and Gomorrah
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.