1. overthrow / destruction (catastrophic) — A feminine noun denoting a catastrophic overthrow or total destruction, used exclusively in the comparative construction 'like the overthrow of' to evoke the paradigmatic divine judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah. Found in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, and Deuteronomy. Both clusters share identical prepositional framing (eng: like the overthrow of, spa: como destrucción de, hin: जैसे उलटावा, arb: كَانْقِلَابِ, kor: 뒤집힘 같이, swa: kama kupinduliwa kwa / kama mapinduzi ya) and differ only in minor contextual variation, not semantic content. 6×
AR["كَ-انْقِلابِ","كَ-اِنْقِلَابِ","كَانقِلَابِ","كَانْقِلَابِ","كَـ-إِهْلَاكِ"]·ben["উলটানোর-মতো","উল্টানোর-মতো","উল্টে-ফেলার-মতো","যেমন-ধ্বংস"]·DE["[כמהפכת]","wie-overthrow-von"]·EN["like-overthrow-by","like-overthrow-of","like-overthrowing-of","like-the-overthrow-of"]·FR["comme-le-renversement","comme-overthrow-de","renversement"]·heb["כ-מהפכת"]·HI["की-तरह-उलटने","जैसे-उलटना-","जैसे-उलटा","जैसे-उलटावा","जैसे-उलटी-हुई"]·ID["seperti-kehancuran","seperti-penghancuran","seperti-penunggangbalikan"]·IT["[כמהפכת]","come-il-rovesciamento","come-overthrow-di"]·jav["kados-anggenipun-ngrebahaken","kados-karisakan","kados-ngejur","kados-pangrisakan"]·KO["같이-뒤엎음(접)","과-같이-뒤엎음","뒤집힘-같고","뒤집힘-같으리라","전복과-같이"]·PT["Como-destruição-de","como-a-destruição-de","como-destruição-de","como-transtorno-de"]·RU["Как-при-низвержении","как-ниспровержение","как-опрокидывал","как-переворот"]·ES["como-destrucción-de","como-trastorno-de"]·SW["Kama-kupinduliwa-kwa","kama-kupindua-kwa","kama-kupinduliwa-kwa","kama-maangamizi-ya","kama-mapinduzi-ya"]·TR["-gibi-yıkımı","devirilisi-gibi","gibi-yıkımı","yıkım-gibi","yıkımı-gibi"]·urd["الٹ-پلٹ-کی-طرح","الٹنے-کی-طرح","جیسے-الٹنا","جیسے-الٹنے","جیسے-اُلٹا","جیسے-اُلٹنا"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [מַהְפֵּכָה] n.f. overthrow—always cstr. מַהְפֵּכַת; & always of overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah etc., except Is 1:7 מ׳ זָרִים, where read סְדֹם (Ew Che RSProph. 345 Di al.; also LagSem i. 3); yet even so prob. gloss, cf Stud.JPTh 1877, 714; מ׳ סְדֹם Dt 29:22 Je 49:18; and with force of verbal noun, governing acc., מ׳ אלהים את־סדם Is 13:19 Je 50:40 Am 4:11. Cf. also הָפַךְ 1 b, הֲפֵכָה.