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title: מְשׁוֹאָה — desolation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְשׁוֹאָה (4875), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: desolation. BDB 1906: n.f. desolation. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְשׁוֹאָה

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«מְשׁוֹאָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **desolation** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 4875 · **BDB:** מְשׁוֹאָה²

### Glosses

desolation (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

desolation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4875/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. desolation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4875/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. desolation;— sg. only in שֹׁאָה וּמ׳ Zp 1:15; Jb 30:3; 38:27, v. above; pl. (מַשּׁוּאוֹת, read) מְשׁוֹאוֹת, so Klo Hup-Now CheComm. Bae Du ψ 74:3 ruins (of temple) and 73:18 ruins (of one’s life, fig.; but Du here der.from נשׁא: deceptions, v. p. 674; yet cf. synon. שַׁמָּה v 19).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְשׁוֹאָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4875/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.27/)

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לְהַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ שֹׁ֭אָהוּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ מֹ֣צָא דֶֽשֶׁא׃

*Word for word:* to satisfy devastation and desolation and to cause.to.sprout a.going.forth of.fresh.grass

*JPS 1917:* To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

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[Job 30:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.3/)

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בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* by poverty and by hunger barren \[those who\].gnaw a.dry.region yesterday devastation and desolation

*JPS 1917:* They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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