Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1943
הֹוָה
hovahho-vaw'
misfortune
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hôvâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1943is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1943
ruin
The King James renders it: mischief.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hovah is rendered "misfortune". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 47:11But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
Isaiah 47:11הֹוָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- disaster3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הֹוָ֔ה1
- הֹוָ֤ה1
- הֹוָה֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
Isaiah
one use
But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
- הֹוָ֔הhovahnoun · feminine singulartagged: disaster
Ezekiel
two uses
Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
- הֹוָ֤הhovahnoun · feminine singulartagged: disaster
- הֹוָה֙hovahnoun · feminine singulartagged: disaster
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.