Definition

ruin

Etymology

or מַשֻּׁאָה; for H4875 (מְשׁוֹאָה);

Word family

• מְשׁוֹאָה mᵉshôwʼâh

How the KJV renders it

• desolation
• destruction

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.