H6987 H6987
destruction, ruin, especially from plague or pestilence
A masculine noun denoting destruction, particularly associated with plague. It appears in poetic parallelism with 'pestilence' (deber) in Psalm 91:6 and with 'death' in Hosea 13:14. Deuteronomy 32:24 uses it alongside 'burning heat' (resheph) to describe covenant curses. The suffixed form in Hosea ('your destruction') personifies death and Sheol, with God challenging them rhetorically. The word evokes catastrophic, often divinely-sent devastation, especially epidemic disease.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — Destruction or devastating ruin, frequently paired with plague vocabulary in poetic texts. The term appears in Deuteronomy's covenant curses (paired with resheph, 'burning fever'), in Psalm 91's protection promises (parallel to deber, 'pestilence'), and in Hosea's taunt of death. The Hosea instance preserves an archaic suffixed form (qatabka, 'your destruction'), showing morphological antiquity. Spanish 'destrucción' and French 'ruine' convey the catastrophic sense, though some translations leave the Hebrew forms untransliterated, respecting their poetic density and textual challenges. 1×
AR["دَمارَكَ"]·ben["তোমার-ধ্বংস"]·DE["[קטבך]"]·EN["your-destruction"]·FR["ruine"]·heb["קטבך"]·HI["तेरा-विनाश"]·IT["[קטבך]"]·jav["karisakan-panjenengan"]·KO["너의-멸하이여"]·PT["destruição-tua"]·RU["жало-твоё"]·ES["tu-destrucción"]·SW["maangamizo-yako"]·TR["yıkımın"]·urd["تیرا-ہلاکت-کرنے-والا"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
† קֶ֫טֶב [קֹ֫טֶב] n.m. Dt 32:24 destruction;—of pestilence, abs. ק׳ Dt 32:24 (‖ רֶשֶׁף), ψ 91:6 (‖ דֶּבֶר), so sf. (of She’ôl) קָֽטָבְךָ (Ges§ 93 q) Ho 13:14 (‖ of מָוֶת, דְּבָרֶיךָ); more gen., שַׂעַר קָ֑טֶב Is 28:2.