Strong's #4875: mshow'ah (pronounced meh-o-aw')

or mshoah {mesh-o-aw'}; from the same as 7722; (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck):--desolation, waste.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

meshô'âh

1) desolation, ruin

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from the same as H7722

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Job 30:3: "into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."
Job 38:27: "To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?"
Zephaniah 1:15: "and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day"