Strong's #7843: shachath (pronounced shaw-khath')
a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively):--batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâchath
1) to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay
1a) (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to spoil, ruin
1b2) to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally)
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to spoil, ruin, destroy
1c2) to pervert, corrupt (morally)
1c3) destroyer (participle)
1d) (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 146 times:
Jeremiah 6:5: "Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces."
Jeremiah 6:28: "and iron; they are all corrupters."
Jeremiah 11:19: "they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land"
Jeremiah 12:10: "Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made"
Jeremiah 13:7: "where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing."
Jeremiah 13:9: "saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride"
Jeremiah 13:14: "spare, nor have mercy, but destroy"
Jeremiah 15:3: "and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy."
Jeremiah 15:6: "my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting."
Jeremiah 18:4: "he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again"
Jeremiah 22:7: "And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars,"
Jeremiah 36:29: "The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land,"
Jeremiah 48:18: "for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strongholds."
Jeremiah 49:9: "if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough."
Jeremiah 51:1: "them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;"
Jeremiah 51:11: "his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD,"
Jeremiah 51:20: "of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;"
Jeremiah 51:25: "mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out"
Lamentations 2:5: "he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah"
Lamentations 2:6: "And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths"
Lamentations 2:8: "The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line,"
Ezekiel 5:16: "for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon"
Ezekiel 9:8: "Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel"
Ezekiel 16:47: "after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways."
Ezekiel 20:17: "Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end"
Ezekiel 20:44: "you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel,"
Ezekiel 22:30: "me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."
Ezekiel 23:11: "And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister"
Ezekiel 26:4: " And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from"
Ezekiel 28:17: "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast"
Ezekiel 30:11: "him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against"
Ezekiel 43:3: "that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision"
Daniel 8:24: "shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy"
Daniel 8:24: "wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people."
Daniel 8:25: "and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince"
Daniel 9:26: "for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood,"
Daniel 11:17: "and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be"
Hosea 9:9: "They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins."
Hosea 11:9: "of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God,"
Hosea 13:9: "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help."
Amos 1:11: "he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually,"
Nahum 2:2: "for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches."
Zephaniah 3:7: "howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings."
Malachi 1:14: "and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King,"
Malachi 2:8: "the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith"
Malachi 3:11: "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither"
