Desolation
מְשׁוֹאָהStrong’s H4875meshoah (me-sho-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meshoah is the Hebrew word usually translated “desolation”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
Meaning
- Desolation, ruin
How it's translated
- and desolation 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Zephaniah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְשׁוֹאָה meshoah · desolation
desolation, ruin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “desolation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESOLATION, noun
- The act of desolating destruction or expulsion of inhabitants; destruction; ruin; waste.“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation” Matthew 12:25
- A place deprived of inhabitants, or otherwise wasted, ravaged and ruined.“How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations” Jeremiah 50:23
- A desolate state; gloominess; sadness; destitution.
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.