Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4114 - מַהְפֵּכָה mahpekah (an overthrow)

Original Word:	מַהְפֵּכָה
Transliteration:	mahpekah
Definition:	an overthrow
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(mah-pay-kaw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

when

From haphak; a destruction -- when...overthrew, overthrow(-n).

see HEBREW haphak

Englishman's Concordance

1) overthrow, destruction
1a) always of Sodom and Gomorrah
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H2015
Same Word by TWOT Number: 512d

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מַהְמֵּכָה] noun feminineoverthrow — always construct מַהְמֵּכַת; & always of overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah etc., except Isaiah 1:7זָרִים׳מ, where read סְדֹם (Ew Che RS^{Proph. 345} Di and others; also Lag^{Semitic i. 3}); yet even so probably gloss, compare Stu^{JPTh 1877, 714}; סְדֹם׳מDeuteronomy 29:22; Jeremiah 49:18; and with force of verbal noun, governing accusative, אלהים אתסֿדם׳מIsaiah 13:19; Jeremiah 50:40; Amos 4:11. compare also הָפַךְ1b, הֲפֵכָה.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4114. מַהְפֵּכַת (mahpekah) — 6 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 29:23
HEB:כָּל־ עֵ֑שֶׂב כְּֽמַהְפֵּכַ֞ת סְדֹ֤ם וַעֲמֹרָה֙
NAS: grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom
KJV: groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom,
INT: All grass the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah

Isaiah 1:7
HEB:אֹתָ֔הּ וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת זָרִֽים׃
NAS: It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
KJV: it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
INT: are devouring is desolation overthrown strangers

Isaiah 13:19
HEB:גְּא֣וֹן כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־
NAS: Will be as when God overthrew Sodom
KJV: shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
INT: pride of the Chaldeans' overthrew God Sodom

Jeremiah 49:18
HEB: כְּֽמַהְפֵּכַ֞ת סְדֹ֧ם וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה
NAS:Like the overthrow of Sodom
KJV:As in the overthrow of Sodom
INT:the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah

Jeremiah 50:40
HEB: כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֨ת אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־
NAS: As when God overthrew Sodom
KJV: As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
INT:overthrew God Sodom

Amos 4:11
HEB:הָפַ֣כְתִּי בָכֶ֗ם כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֤ת אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־
NAS: you, as God overthrew Sodom
KJV: [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom
INT: overthrew overthrew God Sodom

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