H4654a H4654a
ruin, heap of ruins; destroyed city reduced to rubble
This noun appears only in Isaiah 17:1, in the oracle against Damascus: 'Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.' The word denotes the state of complete destruction, a city reduced to a pile of rubble. This prophetic judgment envisions the proud Syrian capital demolished and abandoned, transformed from thriving metropolis to desolate ruin-heap.
Senses
1. sense 1 — English and Spanish both use 'ruins/ruinas,' the standard term for destroyed buildings. Isaiah's oracle depicts Damascus's utter devastation—no longer functioning as a city but collapsed into a mere mound of stones, a monument to divine judgment (Isa 17:1). 1×
AR["خَرَابٍ"]·ben["ধ্বংসস্তূপ"]·DE["[מפלה]"]·EN["ruins"]·FR["[מפלה]"]·heb["מפלה"]·HI["खंडहर-की"]·ID["reruntuhan"]·IT["[מפלה]"]·jav["reruntuhan"]·KO["폐허의"]·PT["ruínas"]·RU["развалин"]·ES["ruinas"]·SW["la-magofu"]·TR["yikintinin"]·urd["کھنڈر"]
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
† מַפָּלָה n.f. a ruin;—abs. מ׳ of city Is 17:1.