na.tsah describes cities reduced to desolation, whether as ruined heaps or left without inhabitants.

The attested usage describes the desolation of cities: fortified places are brought into heaps of ruins, and cities are foreseen as left without inhabitants.

1. Cities brought into desolation · dominant

   In 2 Kings 19:25 and Isaiah 37:26, the Niphal participle occurs in the declaration that fortified cities are turned into crashing heaps of ruins; the APB renders the result as "crashing heaps of ruins." In Jeremiah 4:7, the Qal imperfect stands in the warning that cities will be desolate without an inhabitant, as the APB renders the clause.

   2 Kings 19:25Isaiah 37:26Jeremiah 4:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the relevant clauses as fortified cities becoming "crashing heaps of ruins" in 2 Kings 19:25 and Isaiah 37:26, and as cities "desolate without an inhabitant" in Jeremiah 4:7. These render the clauses' overall portrayal rather than isolating a single English equivalent.