Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7722
שׁוֹא
shosho
ravage; devastation
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shôwʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7722is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7722
a tempest; by implication, devastation
The King James renders it: desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.
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
sho is rendered "ravage; devastation". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "ravage".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 30:3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
Job 30:3שׁוֹאָ֥ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: ravage, and devastation.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| ravageStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJob 30:3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night. |
| devastationStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- devastation3
- ruin2
- and from devastation of1
- and to devastation1
- destruction1
- from ravages their1
- in destruction1
- like devastation1
- like the storm1
- to destruction1
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 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- בְּ֝שׁוֹאָ֗ה1
- וּלְשׁוֹאָ֖ה1
- וּמִשֹּׁאַ֥ת1
- כַּשֹּׁאָ֣ה1
- כְשׁוֹאָ֨ה1
- לְ֭שׁוֹאָה1
- מִשֹּׁאֵיהֶ֑ם1
- שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה1
- שֹׁ֭אָה1
- שֹׁאָה֙1
- שׁוֹאָה֮1
- שׁוֹאָ֥ה1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular6HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular3HR/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular1HC/R/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncfsc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Job
three uses
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- שׁוֹאָ֥הshoahnoun · feminine singulartagged: ruin
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
- שֹׁ֝אָ֗הshoahnoun · feminine singulartagged: devastation
to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
- שֹׁ֭אָהshoahnoun · feminine singulartagged: devastation
Psalms
four uses
May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
- שׁוֹאָה֮shoahnoun · feminine singulartagged: destruction
- בְּ֝שׁוֹאָ֗הbeshoahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in destruction
How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
- מִשֹּׁאֵיהֶ֑םmishoeihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from ravages their
But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.
- לְ֭שׁוֹאָהleshoahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to destruction
Proverbs
two uses
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
- כְשׁוֹאָ֨הkheshaavahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: like devastation
Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
- וּמִשֹּׁאַ֥תumishoatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from devastation of
Isaiah
two uses
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
- וּלְשׁוֹאָ֖הuleshoahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and to devastation
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.
- שׁוֹאָ֖הshoahnoun · feminine singulartagged: ruin
Ezekiel
one use
You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
- כַּשֹּׁאָ֣הkashoahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: like the storm
Zephaniah
one use
That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
- שֹׁאָה֙shoahnoun · feminine singulartagged: devastation
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.