שׁוֹא shôwʼ

Meaning

a tempest; by implication, devastation

In the King James Version: desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.

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

Where it is used

• Job 30:3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
• Job 30:14 They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
• Job 38:27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
• Psalms 35:8 May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
• Psalms 35:17 How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
• Psalms 63:9 But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.
• Proverbs 1:27 when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
• Proverbs 3:25 Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
• Isaiah 10:3 What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
• Isaiah 47:11 But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
• Ezekiel 38:9 You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
• 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,