H1110 H1110
to lay waste, devastate, make desolate; intensive form emphasizing thorough destruction
This intensive verbal form conveys complete devastation and desolation, used of divine judgment against the earth and against cities. Isaiah depicts the LORD himself as the subject, laying waste to the whole earth in cosmic judgment. Nahum employs it in a threefold accumulation of destruction words describing Nineveh's utter ruin. The Poel or intensive stem underscores not mere damage but total, thorough devastation that leaves nothing intact.
Senses
1. sense 1 — An intensive form meaning to utterly devastate or lay completely waste (Isaiah 24:1; Nahum 2:10). The verbal form appears in contexts of total destruction, with God as subject in Isaiah and as part of a triple intensification in Nahum ('empty, desolate, and devastated'). The bracketed forms in some translations indicate uncertainty about the exact parsing, as the form could be Qal or Poel participle, though the intensive meaning is clear from context. 2×
AR["وَدَمَارٌ", "وَيُخَرِّبُهَا"]·ben["এবং-খালিতা", "ও-বিনাশ-করছেন-এটাকে"]·DE["[ובולקה]", "[ומבלקה]"]·EN["and-lays-waste", "and-waste"]·FR["[ובולקה]", "et-Balak"]·heb["ו-מבולקה", "ו-מחריב-אותה"]·HI["और-उजड़ा", "और-उजाड़ने-वाला-है-उसे"]·ID["dan-dikosongkan!", "dan-merusaknya"]·IT["[ובולקה]", "[ומבלקה]"]·jav["lan-ngosongaken", "lan-ngrisak"]·KO["그리고-황폐케-하시며", "그리고-황폐함-이라"]·PT["e-devastado", "e-devastando-a"]·RU["и-разорение", "и-разоряет-её"]·ES["y-devastada", "y-devastándola"]·SW["na-kuiharibu", "na-maangamizi"]·TR["ve-harap-ediyor-onu", "ve-yağmalanmış"]·urd["اور-ویران", "اور-ویران-کرتا-ہے-اُسے"]
Related Senses
H4421 1. war, battle, armed conflict (319×)H0341 1. enemy, adversary, foe (284×)H3898a 1. Nifal: to fight, wage war (167×)H2026 1. kill, slay (active) (146×)H2451 1. wisdom, discernment (146×)H5483b 1. horse (the animal) (138×)H0006 1. to perish, be destroyed (105×)H7843 1. Hifil: destroy, annihilate (83×)H2491a 1. slain, fatally pierced (74×)H6862c 1. adversary, enemy, foe (69×)H8045 1. destroy, exterminate (69×)G0615 1. kill, put to death (60×)H6571b 1. horseman, cavalryman (52×)H8077a 1. desolation, waste (abstract state) (52×)G4678 1. of wisdom (51×)G4717 1. crucify, fasten to a cross (46×)H2763a 1. utterly destroy (Hifil active) (44×)G0622 1. perish, be destroyed (intransitive) (41×)H0006 2. to destroy, annihilate (Piel) (38×)H8074 1. be desolate, lie waste (36×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [בָּלַק] vb. waste, lay waste (Assyrian balâḳu, Pi. destroy, LyonSargon 61; cf. Arabic بَلُّوقَةٌ a desert)— Po. Pt. without מ, sf. בּוֹלְקָהּ Is 24:1 (‖ בּוֹקֵק, subj. י׳, obj. הארץ);—on form (which might also be Qal Pt.) cf. Ol§ 254 LagGN 1882, 403; also בקק Po. Je 51:2, and intensive use of Inf. abs. Niph. Is 24:3; further Pu. (i.e. intens.) Pt. Na 2:11 (this however perhaps largely…