Words the Bible translates as wasteland
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.
- yeshimonיְשִׁימוֹןa barren waste: empty, waterless country where nothing grows and no one lives
- meshammahמְשַׁמָּהwasteland: ground wrecked and emptied until nothing lives on it, and the horror of the people who look at it
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