Words the Bible translates as waste
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 15 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shaḥatשָׁחַתto ruin: to wreck something so it no longer works as it should, whether a thing, a people, or a person's own moral character
- apōleiaἀπώλειαruin, destruction, loss: the wrecking or wasting of something, and in most of the New Testament the final doom of the ungodly
- diaskorpizōδιασκορπίζωto scatter completely: to break up something gathered so that its parts are driven off in every direction
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- to squander: to throw money or property away until nothing is left of it
- shemamahשְׁמָמָהdesolation: a land emptied of life and left a ruin, and the appalled horror that ruin provokes
- shammahשַׁמָּהa horrifying devastation: a place laid waste and abandoned, and the shudder of dread it provokes
- tohuתֹּהוּemptiness: something drained of its proper contents and so unable to serve its purpose, from a trackless desert to a worthless idol to the unformed earth
- ḥorevחֹרֶבdryness at its harshest: the scorching heat of the sun, the drought of withheld rain, or a place dried up into ruin
- yeshimonיְשִׁימוֹןa barren waste: empty, waterless country where nothing grows and no one lives
- sho'ahשׁוֹאָהsudden, sweeping ruin: catastrophe that overwhelms a person or a place without warning, and the emptied waste it leaves behind.
- ḥarevחָרֵבdry: food that has had no oil or moisture added to it
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- desolate: emptied out and left in ruins, said of a city, a countryside, or a building
- meshammahמְשַׁמָּהwasteland: ground wrecked and emptied until nothing lives on it, and the horror of the people who look at it
- asheshעָשֵׁשׁto wastenot studied yet
- balaqבָּלַקto wastenot studied yet
- batahבָּתָהwastenot studied yet
- shudשׁוּדto wastenot studied yet
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