Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4654
מַפָּלָה
mappalahmap-paw-law'
ruin; ruin
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mappâlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4654is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4654
something fallen, i.e. a ruin
The King James renders it: ruin(-ous).
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
mappalah is rendered "ruin; ruin". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "ruin".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 17:1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
Isaiah 17:1מַפָּלָֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: ruin, and ruin.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| ruinStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereIsaiah 17:1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city… |
| ruinStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- into a ruin2
- a ruin1
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
- לְמַפֵּלָ֑ה1
- לְמַפֵּלָֽה׃1
- מַפָּלָֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Isaiah
three uses
This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
- מַפָּלָֽה׃mapalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a ruin
Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
- לְמַפֵּלָֽה׃lemapelahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a ruin
Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
- לְמַפֵּלָ֑הlemapelahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a ruin
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.