Devastation
שֵׁאתStrong’s H7612shet
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shet is the Hebrew word usually translated “devastation”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.”
Meaning
- Ruin, devastationmeaning doubtful
How it's translated
- devastation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁאת shet · devastation
1) ruin, devastation 1a) meaning doubtful
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “devastation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEVASTATION, noun
[Latin]
- Waste; ravage; desolation; destruction of works of art and natural productions which are necessary or useful to man; havock; as by armies, fire, flood, etc.
- IN law, waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor, or administrator.
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.