Lexicon :: Strong's H4229 - māḥâ

Then the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky ​— ​for I regret that I made them.”

“Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

The LORD then said to Moses, “Write this down on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven.”

“Now if you would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me from the book you have written.”

“Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

“The border will go down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain. It will continue down and reach the eastern slope of the Sea of Chinnereth.[fn]

“Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’

“The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

“When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.

“The LORD will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The LORD will blot out his name under heaven,

They said, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

The LORD had not said he would blot out the name of Israel under heaven, so he delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

“I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl ​— ​wiping it and turning it upside down.

Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from your sight, because they have angered[fn] the builders.

Remember me for this, my God, and don’t erase the deeds of faithful love I have done for the house of my God and for its services.

You have rebuked the nations:

You have destroyed the wicked;

you have erased their name forever and ever.

Be gracious to me, God,

according to your faithful love;

according to your abundant compassion,

blot out my rebellion.

Turn your face away[fn] from my sins

and blot out all my guilt.

Let them be erased from the book of life

and not be recorded with the righteous.

Let the line of his descendants be cut off;

let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

He will get a beating[fn] and dishonor,

and his disgrace will never be removed.

This is the way of an adulteress:

she eats and wipes her mouth

and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”

Don’t spend your energy on women

or your efforts on those who destroy kings.

On this mountain,[fn]

the LORD of Armies will prepare for all the peoples a feast of choice meat,

a feast with aged wine, prime cuts of choice meat,[fn] fine vintage wine.

When he has swallowed up death once and for all,

the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears

from every face

and remove his people’s disgrace

from the whole earth,

for the LORD has spoken.

“I am the one, I sweep away your transgressions

for my own sake

and remember your sins no more.

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,

and your sins like a mist.

Return to me,

for I have redeemed you.

But you, LORD, know

all their deadly plots against me.

Do not wipe out their iniquity;

do not blot out their sin before you.

Let them be forced to stumble before you;

deal with them in the time of your anger.

“Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated,[fn] your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.