Strong's #7722: show' (pronounced sho)

or (feminine) showtah {sho-aw'}; or shoah {sho-aw'}; from an unused root meaning to rush over; a tempest; by implication, devastation:--desolate(-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ / ׁ

shô' / shô'âh / shô'âh

1) ravage (noun masculine)

2) devastation, ruin, waste (noun feminine)

2a) devastation, ruin

2b) ruin, waste (of land)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from an unused root meaning to rush over

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2339, 2339a

Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

 

Job 30:3: "fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."
Job 30:14: "upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves"
Job 38:27: "To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?"
Psalms 35:8: " Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch"
Psalms 35:8: "and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall."
Psalms 35:17: "wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions."
Psalms 63:9: "But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth."
Proverbs 1:27: "When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish"
Proverbs 3:25: "afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when"
Isaiah 10:3: "will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to"
Isaiah 47:11: "thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not"
Ezekiel 38:9: "Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou,"
Zephaniah 1:15: "of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess,"