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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4114

מַהְפֵּכָה

mahpekahmah-pay-kaw'

overthrow

6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: mahpêkâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4114is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 5
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4114

a destruction

The King James renders it: when...overthrew, overthrow(-n).

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

mahpekah is rendered "overthrow". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.

  • Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
  • The Greek text spells it five different ways.

The first use

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Deuteronomy 29:23כְּֽמַהְפֵּכַ֞ת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's six uses are in Isaiah.

The other 35 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • like overthrow of6

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.

מַהְפֶּכֶתmahpekethstocksUses4
מַהְלֵךְmahlekpathUsesnot recorded

All 6, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

5 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

  • כְּֽמַהְפֵּכַ֞ת2
  • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת1
  • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֣ת1
  • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֨ת1
  • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֤ת1

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HR/Ncfsc

Deuteronomy

one use
  • All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

    Deuteronomy 29:23

    • כְּֽמַהְפֵּכַ֞תkemahpekhatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like overthrow of

Isaiah

two uses
  • Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

    Isaiah 1:7

    • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥תkemahpekhatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like overthrow of
  • And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

    Isaiah 13:19

    • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֣תkemahpekhatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like overthrow of

Jeremiah

two uses
  • As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

    Jeremiah 49:18

    • כְּֽמַהְפֵּכַ֞תkemahpekhatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like overthrow of
  • As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

    Jeremiah 50:40

    • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֨תkemahpekhatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like overthrow of

Amos

one use
  • “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

    Amos 4:11

    • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֤תkemahpekhatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like overthrow of

The letters

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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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