Ravage
שׁוֹאStrong’s H7722sho
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sho is the Hebrew word usually translated “devastation”, “ruin” and “destruction”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.”
Meaning
- Ravage
- Devastation, ruin, wastedevastation, ruin · ruin, waste (of land)
How it's translated
- devastation 3
- ruin 2
- destruction 1
- in destruction 1
- from ravages their 1
- to destruction 1
- like devastation 1
- and from devastation of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 1
- Zephaniah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 30:14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
- Job 38:27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
- Psalms 35:8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
- Psalms 35:17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
- Psalms 63:9But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוֹא sho · ravage
ravage
שׁוֹאָה shoah · devastation
1) devastation, ruin, waste 1a) devastation, ruin 1b) ruin, waste (of land)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ravage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAV'AGE, noun
[Latin rapio.]
- Spoil; ruin; waste; destruction by violence, wither by men, beasts or physical causes; as the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army.
- Waste; ruin; destruction by decay; as the ravages of time.
All definitions and other forms of “ravage”
RAV'AGE, verb transitive
- To spoil; to plunder; to pillage; to sack.
- To lay waste by any violent force; as, a flood or inundation ravages the meadows.
- to waste or destroy by eating; as fields ravaged by swarms of locusts.
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.