Desolation
מַשּׁוּאָהStrong’s H4876mashshuah (mash-shu-ah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mashshuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deceptions” and “ruins of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.”
Meaning
- Desolation, ruin
How it's translated
- to deceptions 1
- to ruins of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַשּׁוּאָה mashshuah · 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.