מְשׁוֹאָה mᵉshôwʼâh

Meaning

(a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck)

In the King James Version: desolation, waste.

Derivation: or מְשֹׁאָה; from the same as H7722 (שׁוֹא);

Where it is used

• Job 30:3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
• Job 38:27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
• Zephaniah 1:15 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,