Strong H77222 sensesשׁוֹא
devastation · ravage
- Transliteration
- shô' shô'âh shô'âh
- Pronunciation
- {sho} {sho-aw'} sho-aw'
The 2 senses of Strong H7722
The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H7722 appears in 12 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
From an unused root meaning to rush over; a tempest; by implication devastation: - desolate ({-ion}) {destroy} {destruction} {storm} wasteness.
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- desolation5
- desolate2
- destruction2
- destroy1
- let1
- storm1
- wasteness1
First verses
- Job 30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- Job 30:14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
- Job 38:27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
- Psalms 35:8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
- Psalms 35:17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
- Psalms 63:9But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Proverbs 3:25Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
- Isaiah 10:3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
- Isaiah 47:11Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
- Ezekiel 38:9Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
- Zephaniah 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,