Strong’s H4114 · Hebrew

מַהְפֵּכָה
mahpêkâh
mah-pay-kaw'

Definition

a destruction

Etymology

from H2015 (הָפַךְ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • when...overthrew
  • overthrow(-n)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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