Lexical Definition

‎מְשׁוֹאָה‎ mᵉshôwʼâh (meh-o-aw') desolation ^H:N-F
or מְשֹׁאָה mᵉshôʼâh (mesh-oaw'); from the same as ‎שׁוֹא‎

desolation, waste.

• (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)

1) desolation, ruin

See Greek: ἀφανισμός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מְשׁוֺאָה‎, ‎מְשֹׁאָה‎ noun feminine desolation; —

1. singular only in ‎׳‎‎שֹׁאָה וּמ‎ Zeph 1:15; Job 30:3; Job 38:27, see foregoing; plural (‎מַשּׁוּאוֺת‎, read) ‎מְשׁוֺאוֺת‎, so Klo Hup-Now Che^Comm. Bae Du Ps 74:3 ruins (of temple) and Ps 73:18 ruins (of one's life, figurative; but Du here derives from ‎נשׁא‎: deceptions; yet compare synonym ‎שַׁמָּה‎ vPs 73:19).

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