Brown-Driver-Briggs
[
מַהְמֵּכָה]
noun feminine overthrow — always construct
מַהְמֵּכַת; & always of overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah etc., except
Isaiah 1:7 זָרִים ׳מ, where read
סְדֹם (Ew Che RS
Proph. 345 Di and others; also Lag
Semitic i. 3); yet even so probably gloss, compare Stu
JPTh 1877, 714;
סְדֹם ׳מ Deuteronomy 29:22;
Jeremiah 49:18; and with force of verbal noun, governing accusative,
אלהים אתסֿדם ׳מ Isaiah 13:19;
Jeremiah 50:40;
Amos 4:11. compare also
הָפַךְ 1b,
הֲפֵכָה.
