הֹוָה (hōwâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning ruin. It appears 3 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1943).

Also rendered

• misfortune

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 483c)

Root family 483: הָוָה hāwâ — I, fall. (ASV, RSV. So KJV, by confusion with hāwâ II see below, renders the verb as “be.”)

• הַוָּה hawwâ — desire
• הַיָּה hayyâ — destruction

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