Definition

desolation; concretely, desolate

Etymology

from H1820 (דָּמָה);

Word family

• דָּמָה dâmâh

How the KJV renders it

• destroy

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.