Definition

a tempest; by implication, devastation

Etymology

or (feminine) שׁוֹאָה; or שֹׁאָה; from an unused root meaning to rush over;

How the KJV renders it

• desolate(-ion)
• destroy
• destruction
• storm
• wasteness

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.