Shoah שׁוֹאָה

Shoah (Hebrew שׁוֹאָה, Strong's H7722) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “devastation”. It occurs 13 times in 12 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H7722B: devastation

H7722A: ravage

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Shoah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Job

• Job 30:3
  For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
• Job 30:14
  They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
• Job 38:27
  To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Psalms

• Psalm 35:8
  Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
• Psalm 35:17
  Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
• Psalm 63:9
  But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 1:27
  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
• Proverbs 3:25
  Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,

Isaiah

• Isaiah 10:3
  And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?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
  Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.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

• Ezekiel 38:9
  Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.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

• Zephaniah 1:15
  That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,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,

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).