Words the Bible translates as downfall

English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.

meḥittahמְחִתָּהruin: the shattering collapse that overtakes a person, a people, or a place, or the dread of one
mappeletמַפֶּלֶתa fall and its wreckage: the crash of something tall or powerful coming down, and the fallen body or trunk left lying where it dropped

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