mah.pe.khah denotes a devastating overturning, repeatedly invoked through the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.

The attested use describes a devastating overturning: four verses compare a place or people with the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah, while Isaiah 1:7 applies the term to devastation in the land. Deuteronomy 29:22 places the construct noun within a description of a land afflicted with wounds and disease, though the translation does not isolate its contribution.

1. Devastating overturning of places or people · dominant

   The construct noun occurs in comparisons to the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Amos 4:11 the APB renders, "I overthrew you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah"; Isaiah 13:19, Jeremiah 49:18, and Jeremiah 50:40 likewise frame the destruction or future desolation of a place by that comparison. In Isaiah 1:7 the APB renders the land as "devastation like the overthrow of strangers."

   Amos 4:11Isaiah 13:19Isaiah 1:7Jeremiah 49:18Jeremiah 50:40
2. Affliction associated with a stricken land · rare

   In Deuteronomy 29:22 the construct noun appears in the description of a land whose wounds and diseases the LORD inflicted. The APB presents the land's afflicted condition but does not isolate a corresponding English rendering for the term.

   Deuteronomy 29:22

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the occurrences, the APB uses "overthrew," "overthrown," and "overthrow" in the Sodom-and-Gomorrah comparisons, while Isaiah 1:7 pairs "devastation" with "the overthrow of strangers." In Deuteronomy 29:22 it describes wounds and diseases without isolating an English equivalent for the term.