# H4875 מְשׁוֹאָה

מְשׁוֹאָה (mᵉshôwʼâh), Strong’s H4875: (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck) KJV: desolation, waste.. Occurs 3 times.

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*mᵉshôwʼâh* — (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)

KJV: desolation, waste.

Derived from [שׁוֹא shôwʼ](https://besorah.bible/word/H7722) (a tempest)

Occurs 3 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מְשׁוֹאָה, מְשֹׁאָה n.f. desolation

## Where it occurs
- [Zephaniah 1:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/1?v=15) — That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a…
- [Job 30:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/30?v=3) — They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
- [Job 38:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/38?v=27) — to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?