Strong's #7582: sha'ah (pronounced shaw-aw')

a primitive root; to rush; by implication, to desolate:--be desolate, (make a) rush(-ing), (lay) waste.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâ'âh

1) crash, make a din or crash, crash into ruins, be in ruins, be desolated

1a) (Qal) to crash into ruins

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be ruined

1b2) to crash

1b3) to be left (a desolation)

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to cause to crash

1c2) to cause to be desolated

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

2 Kings 19:25: "it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced"
Isaiah 6:11: "how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without"
Isaiah 6:11: "inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,"
Isaiah 17:12: "of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!"
Isaiah 17:13: "The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off,"
Isaiah 37:26: "times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defensed cities"