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מַפֵּלָה

ma.pe.lah

ruin

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Strong’s H4654bNoun, feminine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a ruin2

In the text

Isaiah 23:13לְמַפֵּלָה
Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַפֵּלָה n.f. id. [n.ek.ad];—abs. מ׳ of city Is 23:13 25:2.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.