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Annihilation

מִשְׁבָּתStrong’s H4868

mishbat (mish-bat)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Mishbat is the Hebrew word usually translated “annihilation her”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.”
Lamentations 1:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Cessation, annihilation
How it's translated
  • annihilation her 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Lamentations 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    מִשְׁבָּת mishbat · annihilation

    cessation, annihilation

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “annihilation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    ANNIHILA'TION, noun

    1. The act of reducing to nothing or non-existence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it, as the annihilation of a corporation.
    2. The state of being reduced to nothing.

    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.