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:
2 Samuel 11:1: "with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged"
2 Samuel 14:11: "that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son."
2 Samuel 20:15: "the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down."
2 Samuel 20:20: "from me, that I should swallow up or destroy."
2 Samuel 24:16: "stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil,"
2 Samuel 24:16: "the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now"
2 Kings 8:19: "Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's"
2 Kings 13:23: "and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from"
2 Kings 18:25: "the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to"
2 Kings 18:25: "me, Go up against this land, and destroy"
2 Kings 19:12: "delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph,"
1 Chronicles 20:1: "the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon,"
1 Chronicles 21:12: "even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel."
1 Chronicles 21:15: "sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him"
1 Chronicles 21:15: "an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of"
1 Chronicles 21:15: "the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand."
2 Chronicles 12:7: "saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath"
2 Chronicles 12:12: "turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things"
2 Chronicles 21:7: "Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of"
2 Chronicles 24:23: "to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people"
2 Chronicles 25:16: "that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not"
2 Chronicles 26:16: "his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went"
2 Chronicles 27:2: "the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly."
2 Chronicles 34:11: "which the kings of Judah had destroyed."
2 Chronicles 35:21: "thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not."
2 Chronicles 36:19: "all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels"
Psalms 14:1: "in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth"
Psalms 53:1: "in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth"
Psalms 78:38: "being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away,"
Psalms 78:45: "divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed"
Psalms 106:23: "him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy"
Proverbs 6:32: "understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul."
Proverbs 11:9: "A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered."
Proverbs 23:8: "The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words."
Proverbs 25:26: "the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring."
Proverbs 28:24: "transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer."
Isaiah 1:4: "a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked"
Isaiah 11:9: "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for"
Isaiah 14:20: "with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed"
Isaiah 36:10: "the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto"
Isaiah 36:10: "me, Go up against this land, and destroy"
Isaiah 37:12: "delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph,"
Isaiah 51:13: "of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?"
Isaiah 54:16: "for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy."
Isaiah 65:8: "is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so"
Isaiah 65:8: "will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all."
Isaiah 65:25: "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith"
Jeremiah 2:30: "your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion."
Jeremiah 4:7: "The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth"
Jeremiah 5:10: "Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements;"
