שָׁחַת
to destroy
also: corrupt, go to ruin, decay fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘spoil’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘spoil’
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘be marred’
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 42 distinct
- Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct 21 times (14%)
- Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct 18 times (12%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 11 times (7%)
- Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 9 times (6%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 8 times (5%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 7 times (5%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 7 times (5%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 6 times (4%)
+34 more forms (60 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 147 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7843 appears — 136 distinct verses across 25 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 14 verses
- Genesis 6:11 וַ/תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת conj + Niphal wimpf 3fs The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:12 נִשְׁחָ֑תָה הִשְׁחִ֧ית Niphal pf 3fs Hiphil pf 3ms God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- Genesis 6:13 מַשְׁחִיתָ֖/ם Hiphil ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 3mp God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 6:17 לְ/שַׁחֵ֣ת prep + Piel inf.cs I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 9:11 לְ/שַׁחֵ֥ת prep + Piel inf.cs I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
- Genesis 9:15 לְ/שַׁחֵ֖ת prep + Piel inf.cs and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 13:10 שַׁחֵ֣ת Piel inf.cs Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
- Genesis 18:28 הֲ/תַשְׁחִ֥ית אַשְׁחִ֔ית ptcl inter + Hiphil impf 2ms Hiphil impf 1cs What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
- Genesis 18:31 אַשְׁחִ֔ית Hiphil impf 1cs He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
- Genesis 18:32 אַשְׁחִ֔ית Hiphil impf 1cs He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 19:13 מַשְׁחִתִ֣ים לְ/שַׁחֲתָֽ/הּ Hiphil ptcp.act mp prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."
- Genesis 19:14 מַשְׁחִ֥ית Hiphil ptcp.act ms Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
- Genesis 19:29 בְּ/שַׁחֵ֤ת prep + Piel inf.cs It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- Genesis 38:9 וְ/שִׁחֵ֣ת conj + Piel pf 3ms Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.
Exodus 4 verses
- Exodus 8:24 תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת Niphal impf 3fs Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
- Exodus 12:23 הַ/מַּשְׁחִ֔ית ptcl def.art + n c ms For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
- Exodus 21:26 וְ/שִֽׁחֲתָ֑/הּ conj + Piel wpf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- Exodus 32:7 שִׁחֵ֣ת Piel pf 3ms Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 1 verse
Deuteronomy 10 verses
- Deuteronomy 4:16 תַּשְׁחִת֔וּ/ן Hiphil impf 2mp + sfx n Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:25 וְ/הִשְׁחַתֶּ֗ם conj + Hiphil wpf 2mp When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;
- Deuteronomy 4:31 יַשְׁחִיתֶ֑/ךָ Hiphil impf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
- Deuteronomy 9:12 שִׁחֵ֣ת Piel pf 3ms Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Deuteronomy 9:26 תַּשְׁחֵ֤ת Hiphil juss 2ms I prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- Deuteronomy 10:10 הַשְׁחִיתֶֽ/ךָ Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 20:19 תַשְׁחִ֤ית Hiphil impf 2ms When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
- Deuteronomy 20:20 תַשְׁחִ֖ית Hiphil impf 2ms Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 הַשְׁחֵ֣ת תַּשְׁחִת֔וּ/ן Hiphil inf.abs Hiphil impf 2mp + sfx n For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 32:5 שִׁחֵ֥ת Piel pf 3ms They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
Joshua 1 verse
Judges 7 verses
- Judges 2:19 וְ/הִשְׁחִ֣יתוּ conj + Hiphil wpf 3cp But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
- Judges 6:4 וַ/יַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ֙ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
- Judges 6:5 לְ/שַׁחֲתָֽ/הּ prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.
- Judges 20:21 וַ/יַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.
- Judges 20:25 וַ/יַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
- Judges 20:35 וַ/יַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.
- Judges 20:42 מַשְׁחִיתִ֥ים Hiphil ptcp.act mp Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.
Ruth 1 verse
1 Samuel 6 verses
- 1 Samuel 6:5 הַ/מַּשְׁחִיתִם֙ ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act mp Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 13:17 הַ/מַּשְׁחִ֛ית ptcl def.art + n c ms The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
- 1 Samuel 14:15 וְ/הַ/מַּשְׁחִ֔ית conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.
- 1 Samuel 23:10 לְ/שַׁחֵ֥ת prep + Piel inf.cs Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
- 1 Samuel 26:9 תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֑/הוּ Hiphil juss 2ms + sfx pers 3ms David said to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?
- 1 Samuel 26:15 לְ/הַשְׁחִ֖ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs David said to Abner, Aren't you a [valiant] man? and who is like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king your lord.
2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:14 לְ/שַׁחֵ֖ת prep + Piel inf.cs David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?
- 2 Samuel 11:1 וַ/יַּשְׁחִ֨תוּ֙ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 14:11 לְ/שַׁחֵ֔ת prep + Piel inf.cs Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.
- 2 Samuel 20:15 מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ם Hiphil ptcp.act mp They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
- 2 Samuel 20:20 אַשְׁחִֽית Hiphil impf 1cs Joab answered, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
- 2 Samuel 24:16 לְ/שַׁחֲתָ/הּ֒ הַ/מַּשְׁחִ֤ית prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Kings 4 verses
- 2 Kings 8:19 לְ/הַשְׁחִ֣ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
- 2 Kings 13:23 הַשְׁחִיתָ֔/ם Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
- 2 Kings 18:25 לְ/הַשְׁחִת֑/וֹ וְ/הַשְׁחִיתָֽ/הּ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 3fs Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
- 2 Kings 19:12 שִׁחֲת֣וּ Piel pf 3cp Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 20:1 וַ/יַּשְׁחֵ֣ת conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
- 1 Chronicles 21:12 מַשְׁחִ֖ית Hiphil ptcp.act ms either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
- 1 Chronicles 21:15 לְ/הַשְׁחִיתָ/הּ֒ וּ/כְ/הַשְׁחִ֗ית הַ/מַּשְׁחִית֙ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs conj + prep + Hiphil inf.cs ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 10 verses
- 2 Chronicles 12:7 אַשְׁחִיתֵ֑/ם Hiphil impf 1cs + sfx pers 3mp When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
- 2 Chronicles 12:12 לְ/הַשְׁחִ֖ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things [found].
- 2 Chronicles 21:7 לְ/הַשְׁחִית֙ prep + Hiphil inf.cs However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
- 2 Chronicles 24:23 וַ/יַּשְׁחִ֛יתוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus.
- 2 Chronicles 25:16 לְ/הַשְׁחִיתֶ֔/ךָ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
- 2 Chronicles 26:16 לְ/הַשְׁחִ֔ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.
- 2 Chronicles 27:2 מַשְׁחִיתִֽים Hiphil ptcp.act mp He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.
- 2 Chronicles 34:11 הִשְׁחִ֖יתוּ Hiphil pf 3cp even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
- 2 Chronicles 35:21 יַשְׁחִיתֶֽ/ךָ Hiphil juss 3ms + sfx pers 2ms But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? [I come] not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded me to make haste: forbear you from [meddling with] God, who is with me, that he not destroy you.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 לְ/הַשְׁחִֽית prep + Hiphil inf.cs They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.
Psalms 5 verses
- Psalms 14:1 הִֽשְׁחִ֗יתוּ Hiphil pf 3cp The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.
- Psalms 53:1 הִֽ֝שְׁחִ֗יתוּ Hiphil pf 3cp The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
- Psalms 78:38 יַ֫שְׁחִ֥ית Hiphil impf 3ms But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, And didn't stir up all his wrath.
- Psalms 78:45 וַ/תַּשְׁחִיתֵֽ/ם conj + Hiphil wimpf 3fs + sfx pers 3mp He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
- Psalms 106:23 מֵֽ/הַשְׁחִֽית prep + Hiphil inf.cs Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.
Proverbs 6 verses
- Proverbs 6:32 מַֽשְׁחִ֥ית Hiphil ptcp.act ms He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
- Proverbs 11:9 יַשְׁחִ֣ת Hiphil impf 3ms With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, But the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
- Proverbs 18:9 מַשְׁחִֽית n c ms One who is slack in his work Is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
- Proverbs 23:8 וְ֝/שִׁחַ֗תָּ conj + Piel wpf 2ms The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, And lose your good words.
- Proverbs 25:26 מָשְׁחָ֑ת Hophal ptcp.pass ms Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, So is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
- Proverbs 28:24 מַשְׁחִֽית Hiphil ptcp.act ms Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
Isaiah 9 verses
- Isaiah 1:4 מַשְׁחִיתִ֑ים Hiphil ptcp.act mp Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
- Isaiah 11:9 יַשְׁחִ֖יתוּ Hiphil impf 3mp They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
- Isaiah 14:20 שִׁחַ֖תָּ Piel pf 2ms You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.
- Isaiah 36:10 לְ/הַשְׁחִיתָ֑/הּ וְ/הַשְׁחִיתָֽ/הּ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs conj + Hiphil impv 2ms + sfx pers 3fs Am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
- Isaiah 37:12 הִשְׁחִ֣יתוּ Hiphil pf 3cp Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
- Isaiah 51:13 לְ/הַשְׁחִ֑ית prep + Hiphil inf.cs and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
- Isaiah 54:16 מַשְׁחִ֖ית Hiphil ptcp.act ms Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
- Isaiah 65:8 תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֔/הוּ הַֽשְׁחִ֥ית Hiphil juss 2ms + sfx pers 3ms Hiphil inf.cs Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
- Isaiah 65:25 יַשְׁחִ֛יתוּ Hiphil impf 3mp The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 21 verses
- Jeremiah 2:30 מַשְׁחִֽית Hiphil ptcp.act ms In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Jeremiah 4:7 וּ/מַשְׁחִ֣ית conj + Hiphil ptcp.act ms cs A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 5:10 וְ/שַׁחֵ֔תוּ conj + Piel impv 2mp Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
- Jeremiah 6:5 וְ/נַשְׁחִ֖יתָה conj + Hiphil coh 1cp Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
- Jeremiah 6:28 מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ים Hiphil ptcp.act mp They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
- Jeremiah 11:19 נַשְׁחִ֨יתָה Hiphil coh 1cp But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Jeremiah 12:10 שִֽׁחֲת֣וּ Piel pf 3cp Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
- Jeremiah 13:7 נִשְׁחַ֣ת Niphal pf 3ms Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
- Jeremiah 13:9 אַשְׁחִ֞ית Hiphil impf 1cs Thus says Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 13:14 מֵ/הַשְׁחִיתָֽ/ם prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
- Jeremiah 15:3 וּ/לְ/הַשְׁחִֽית conj + prep + Hiphil inf.cs I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
- Jeremiah 15:6 וָֽ/אַשְׁחִיתֵ֔/ךְ conj + Hiphil wimpf 1cs + sfx pers 2fs You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.
- Jeremiah 18:4 וְ/נִשְׁחַ֣ת conj + Niphal pf 3ms When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
- Jeremiah 22:7 מַשְׁחִתִ֖ים Hiphil ptcp.act mp I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
- Jeremiah 36:29 וְ/הִשְׁחִית֙ conj + Hiphil wpf 3ms Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?
- Jeremiah 48:18 שִׁחֵ֖ת Piel pf 3ms You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
- Jeremiah 49:9 הִשְׁחִ֥יתוּ Hiphil pf 3cp If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough?
- Jeremiah 51:1 מַשְׁחִֽית Hiphil ptcp.act ms Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
- Jeremiah 51:11 לְ/הַשְׁחִיתָ֑/הּ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
- Jeremiah 51:20 וְ/הִשְׁחַתִּ֥י conj + Hiphil wpf 1cs You are my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
- Jeremiah 51:25 הַ/מַּשְׁחִ֖ית ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
Lamentations 3 verses
- Lamentations 2:5 שִׁחֵ֖ת Piel pf 3ms The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
- Lamentations 2:6 שִׁחֵ֖ת Piel pf 3ms He has violently taken away his tent, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
- Lamentations 2:8 לְ/הַשְׁחִית֙ prep + Hiphil inf.cs Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Ezekiel 11 verses
- Ezekiel 5:16 לְ/שַֽׁחֶתְ/כֶ֑ם prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;
- Ezekiel 9:8 הֲ/מַשְׁחִ֣ית ptcl inter + Hiphil ptcp.act ms It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?
- Ezekiel 16:47 וַ/תַּשְׁחִ֥תִי conj + Hiphil wimpf 2fs Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
- Ezekiel 20:17 מִֽ/שַּׁחֲתָ֑/ם prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:44 הַ/נִּשְׁחָתוֹת֙ ptcl def.art + Niphal ptcp.pass fp You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 22:30 שַׁחֲתָ֑/הּ Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
- Ezekiel 23:11 וַ/תַּשְׁחֵ֥ת conj + Hiphil wimpf 3fs Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister.
- Ezekiel 26:4 וְ/שִׁחֲת֞וּ conj + Piel wpf 3cp They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
- Ezekiel 28:17 שִׁחַ֥תָּ Piel pf 2ms Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
- Ezekiel 30:11 לְ/שַׁחֵ֣ת prep + Piel inf.cs He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
- Ezekiel 43:3 לְ/שַׁחֵ֣ת prep + Piel inf.cs It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Daniel 4 verses
- Daniel 8:24 יַשְׁחִ֖ית וְ/הִשְׁחִ֥ית Hiphil impf 3ms conj + Hiphil wpf 3ms His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do [his pleasure]; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.
- Daniel 8:25 יַשְׁחִ֣ית Hiphil impf 3ms Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their] security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
- Daniel 9:26 יַ֠שְׁחִית Hiphil impf 3ms After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- Daniel 11:17 לְ/הַשְׁחִיתָ֔/הּ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he shall perform them: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him.
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 9:9 שִׁחֵ֖תוּ Piel pf 3cp They have deeply corrupted themselves, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
- Hosea 11:9 לְ/שַׁחֵ֣ת prep + Piel inf.cs I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: For I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; And I will not come in wrath.
- Hosea 13:9 שִֽׁחֶתְ/ךָ֥ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, Against your help.
Amos 1 verse
Nahum 1 verse
Zephaniah 1 verse
Malachi 3 verses
- Malachi 1:14 מָשְׁחָ֖ת Hophal ptcp.pass ms "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
- Malachi 2:8 שִֽׁחַתֶּם֙ Piel pf 2mp But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Malachi 3:11 יַשְׁחִ֥ת Hiphil impf 3ms I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says Yahweh of Hosts.
About this entry
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שחת — transliterated shâchath — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to destroy.” Read the stem: it spans 4 stems, including Niphal and Piel. It appears 136 verses across 25 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 6:11. It shares a root with משחית, משחת and שחת. See the sense tree, 136-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7843 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 136
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 136 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #305
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 305 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 136 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 136 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 74 verses · 54%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 32 verses · 24%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 30 verses · 22%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Destroy 37×, Destroyed 9×, Corrupt 3×
- American Standard Version: Destroy 32×, Destroyed 7×, Destroy it 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Destroy 27×, Destroy it 7×, Destroyed 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Destroy 26×, Destroy it 13×, Destroyed 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7843 across 146 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 59 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7843 across 146 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 71 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7843 across 145 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 71 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7843 across 161 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 60 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
8 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 8 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Niphal
- be marred, spoiled, Pf. 3 ms. נִשְׁחַת, of waistcloth Je 13:7, vessel 18:4; be injured, or even (hyperb.) ruined, Impf. 3 fs. תִּשָּׁחֵת Ex 8:20 (J) of land (מִפְּנֵי הֶעָרֹב); be corrupted, corrupt, in morals and rel., of earth, Pf. 3 fs. נִשְׁחָ֑תָה Gn 6:12 (P), Impf. 3 fs. וַתִּשּׁ׳ לִפְנֵי הָא׳ v 11 (P); so Pt. fpl. as adj. נִשְׁחָתוֹת Ez 20:44. e.g. Jeremiah 13:7
Piel
- Pf. 3 ms. שִׁחֵת Ex 32:7 +, sf. שִׁחֶתְךָ Ho 13:9; 2 ms. שִׁחַתָּ Is 14:20 +, etc.; Imv. mpl. שַׁחֵ֑תוּ Je 5:10; Inf. cstr. שַׁחֵת Gn 13:10 +, etc.;— e.g. Exodus 32:7
- 1. spoil, ruin, acc. of eye Ex 21:26 (E), vineyard Je 12:10 (fig.), branches Na 2:3 (fig.), also = destroy, acc. pers. 2 S 1:14; 14:11 (acc. om.), Ez 5:16; 20:17, כָּל־בָּשָׂר Gn 6:17; 9:15 (P), city, fortress, etc., Gn 13:10; 19:13, 29 (all J); 2 S 24:16; Je 5:10 (acc. om.) 48:18; Ez 26:4; 43:3; La 2:5, ruin temple v 6, nation Ho 11:9; 13:9 (read perhaps שִׁחַתִּךָ Oort Now), land 2 K 19:12 (Hiph. in ‖ Is 37:12), Ju 6:5 Jos 22:33 (P), Ez 22:30; 30:11, earth Gn 9:11 (P); c. ל obj. (ל 3 b), city 1 S 23:11, pers. Nu 32:15 (P); c. acc. רַחֲמָיו Am 1:11, destroyed (stifled) his compassion (or, RSK 28 al., the bonds of kinship, v. רַחֲמִים), בְּרִית Mal 2:8, i.e. violate it, v. especially וְשׁ׳ אַרְצָה (sc. semen) Gn 38:9 (J) he spoiled (it) upon the ground, made it ineffective, = waste words Pr 23:8. e.g. Exodus 21:26
- 2. pervert, corrupt, acc. wisdom Ez 28:17, abs. = deal corruptly, חֶעֱמִיקוּ שִׁחֵתוּ Ho 9:9 (cf. [עָמֹק], p. 770b; but We Now read שַׁחְתּוֹ, √ שׁוח), Ex 32:7 (JE), Dt 9:12, so שׁ׳ לוֹ 32:5. e.g. Ezekiel 28:17
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הִשְׁחִית Gn 6:12 +; 1 s. וְהִשְׁחַתִּ֫י Je 51:20, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יַשְׁחִית Dn 8:24 +, יַשְׁחִת Mal 3:11 +, וַיַּשְׁחֵת 1 Ch 20:1; 2 fs. וַתַּשְׁחִתִי Ez 16:47, 2 mpl. תַּשְׁחִתוּן Dt 4:16; 31:29; Imv. ms. sf. הַשְׁחִיתָהּ 2 K 18:25 = Is 36:10; Inf. abs. הַשְׁחֵת Dt 31:29; cstr. הַשְׁחִית 1 S 26:15 +, etc.; Pt. מַשְׁחִית Gn 19:14 +, etc.;— e.g. Genesis 6:12
- 1. spoil, ruin, acc. crop Ju 6:4; Mal 3:11, trees Dt 20:19, 20; Je 11:19 (fig.), vessels 2 Ch 36:19, houses 34:11, palaces Je 6:5, cf. Is 65:8; Lv 19:27 (H), Ru 4:6; הִשׁ׳ דַּיָּם Je 49:9 thieves damage as much as they want; acc. pers. = ruin, destroy, 1 S 26:9, 15 Ju 20:21, 25 (+ אַ֫רְצָה), v 35, 42; 2 K 13:23; 2 Ch 24:23 (+ מִן separ.), + 12 times, + (acc. pers. om.) Is 51:13 + 4 times, acc. בֵּית דָּוִד 2 Ch 21:7, abs. Is 11:9 = 65:25; also ruin one (by words) Pr 11:9; acc. עַם 2 S 24:16; Dt 9:26; land 1 S 6:5; Je 36:29; Dn 11:17 (v. Dr); city wall 2 S 20:15 (Ew Th here denom. from שַׁחַת they were making a pit; מְהַשְּׁבִים were devising), La 2:8, cities and nations Gn 18:28(×2) (J, acc. om.), 19:13, 14 (J), Is 37:12 (Pi. in ‖ 2 K 19:12), 36:10(×2) = 2 K 18:25(×2) + 11 times + (Israel personif.) Dt 4:31; 10:10; 2 K 8:19, pride of Judah Je 13:9, earth Je 51:1; abs. c. adv. acc. Dn 8:24 (v. Dr; Bev conj. יְשׂחֵחַ or יָשִׂיחַ utter monstrous things), cf. 1 Ch 21:12; Pt. as adj., of lion Je 2:30, angel 1 Ch 21:15; = destroyer Ex 12:23 (J), Je 22:7; Is 54:16, מ׳ גּוֹיִם Je 4:7, רוּח מ׳ 51:1; sg. coll. (הַמּ׳ Ges§ 126 i; the destroying band, cf. Dr Bu Now) 1 S 13:17; 14:15 (spoilers, ravagers); fig. for snare, trap, Je 5:26. e.g. Judges 6:4
- 2. pervert, corrupt, morally, acc. דֶּרֶךְ Gn 6:12 (P; v. דֶּרֶךְ 6), נַפְשׁוֹ Pr 6:32, cf. Zp 3:7; Ez 23:11 (מִן comp.); הִשׁ׳ הִתְעִיבוּ עֲלִילָה ψ 14:1 = 53:2; הַשְׁהֵת תַּשְׁח׳ (+ vb. of particular act) Dt 4:16; 31:29; declar. = act corruptly, Is 1:4; Dt 4:25 (+ vb. of act), 2 Ch 27:2, + מִן comp. Ju 2:19; Ez 16:47; Pt. as subst. Je 6:28, אִישׁ מַשׁ׳ Pr 28:24 (18:9 v. infra).—אַל־תַּשְׁחֵת destroy not (catchword of old song or melody?) in ψ-titles: †57:1; 58:1; 59:1; 75:1. e.g. Genesis 6:12
Hophal
- Pt. מָשְׁחָת spoiled, ruined, of a spring, מָקוֹר Pr 25:26 (‖ מַעְיָן נִרְפָּשׂ); as subst. Mal 1:14 sacrificing a spoiled thing. e.g. Proverbs 25:26
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. go to ruin (?), only der. spec. (NH Hiph. = BH, Ecclus. שחיתה 30:11 corrupt act; Arabic سَحَتَ extirpate; Ethiopic ሰሐጠ: injure, violate; TelAm. šaḫâtu is fall (especially of city), be prostrate (? of land), perhaps Canaanism (v. WklTelAm. Vocab.), Assyrian poss. šêtu, flee, escape (cf. אבד); Old Aramaic (Zinj.) שחת destroy Lzb374, Aramaic שְׁחַת, ܫܰܚܶܛ (assim. of ܬ), mutilate;—very improb. Gerber179 denom. from שַׁחַת);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁחַת
- (b. h.) to be low, bent.
- (cmp. חָבַל) to pervert, ruin, do harm. Ex. R. s. 8 ש׳ לנפשו he did harm to himself; a. e.—Ab. d. R. N. ch. I, end וירדו … לשַׁחֲתוֹ ed. Schechter (ed. לשרתו, corr. acc.) and the ministering angels came down to destroy him (Adam). Kidd. 24ᵇ (ref. to Ex. XXI, 26) עד שיתכוין לשַׁחְתָהּ when he intended to destroy it. Naz. 4ᵇ לשַׁחֵת, v. שֵׂעָר; a. e. e.g. Exodus 21:26
- 1. same. same. Ex. R. l. c. ה׳ לנפשו, v. supra. Tanḥ. Tol’d. 6 לילך … להַשְׁחִיתוֹ to go to Nabal to ruin him; a. fr.—Esp. בַּל תַּשְׁחִית (v. בַּל) the law forbidding to ruin anything wantonly (derived from Deut. XX, 19). Sabb. 129ᵃ והא קעבר מר משום בל ת׳ in doing so, do you not disregard the law which forbids wilful destruction? בל ת׳ דגופאי עדיף לי not to do injury to myself is a higher duty to me; ib. 140ᵇ; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 20:19
- 2. to commit a nuisance. Y. Succ. V, 55ᶜ (play on משתחויתם, Ez. VIII, 16) [read:] שהיו משתחוים לחמה ומַשְׁחִיתִים להיכל they prostrated themselves in worship of the sun, and committed nuisance towards the Temple (v. Bab. Succ. 53ᵇ; Yoma 77ᵃ). e.g. Ezekiel 8:16
שְׁחַת
- ; part. pass. שְׁחִית mutilated. Targ. Y. Lev. XXII, 24 (h. text נתוק).
שַׁחַת I
- pit, grave. Pesik. R. s. 10 (ref. to Ps. LXXV, 8) זה שהשפיל לישראל לבאר ש׳ וכ׳ as zeh (Neh. IX, 18) brought Israel down to the lowest pit, so did zeh (Ex. XXX, 13) lift it up &c.; a. e. e.g. Psalms 75:8
שַׁחַת II
- (preced.) low growth, corn in its earliest stage used instead of grass. Peah II, 1 הקוצר לש׳ he who cuts young corn to be used as fodder; Tosef. ib. I, 8. Men. X, 8 (71ᵃ) קוצר לש׳ ומאכיל לבהמה (Bab. ed. מאכל, corr. acc.) one may cut barley as shaḥath and give it to the cattle (before the ʿOmer has been offered); Tosef. ib. X, 32 קוצר לש׳ עד שלא וכ׳ as to cutting barley for fodder: before it has approached maturity by one third, one may begin &c. Men. 71ᵇ כל לש׳ לא וכ׳ whatever is for fodder is not considered as harvesting. Sabb. XXIV, 2. Kidd. 62ᵇ; a. e.
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Forms in the corpus
The 125 distinct written forms H7843 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 65 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 133 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 136 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 6:11
- Exodus 8:24
- Leviticus 19:27
- Numbers 32:15
- Deuteronomy 4:16
- Joshua 22:33
- Judges 2:19
- Ruth 4:6
- 1 Samuel 6:5
- 2 Samuel 1:14
- 2 Kings 8:19
- 1 Chronicles 20:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
