Words the Bible translates as devastation
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shemamahשְׁמָמָהdesolation: a land emptied of life and left a ruin, and the appalled horror that ruin provokes
- erēmōsisἐρήμωσιςthe laying waste of a place, and the ruined emptiness that laying it waste leaves behind
- shodשֹׁדforcible devastation: the ruin of violent plundering, whether the destroying act or the havoc it leaves behind
- sho'ahשׁוֹאָהsudden, sweeping ruin: catastrophe that overwhelms a person or a place without warning, and the emptied waste it leaves behind.
- meshammahמְשַׁמָּהwasteland: ground wrecked and emptied until nothing lives on it, and the horror of the people who look at it
- shetשֵׁאתdevastationnot studied yet
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