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Lexicon :: Strong's H7843 - šāḥaṯ

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שָׁחַת
Transliteration
šāḥaṯ
Pronunciation
shaw-khath'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2370

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁחַת shâchath, 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, × utterly, waste(-r).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 147x

The KJV translates Strong's H7843 in the following manner: destroy (96x), corrupt (22x), mar (7x), destroyer (3x), corrupters (2x), waster (2x), spoilers (2x), battered (1x), corruptly (1x), miscellaneous (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 147x
The KJV translates Strong's H7843 in the following manner: destroy (96x), corrupt (22x), mar (7x), destroyer (3x), corrupters (2x), waster (2x), spoilers (2x), battered (1x), corruptly (1x), miscellaneous (11x).
  1. to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay

    1. (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted

    2. (Piel)

      1. to spoil, ruin

      2. to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally)

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to spoil, ruin, destroy

      2. to pervert, corrupt (morally)

      3. destroyer (participle)

    4. (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁחַת shâchath, 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, × utterly, waste(-r).
STRONGS H7843: Abbreviations
[שָׁחַת]151 verb go to ruin (?), only derived species (Late Hebrew Hiph. = Biblical Hebrew, Ecclus. שחיתה Ecclesiasticus 30:11 corrupt act; Arabic سَعَتَ extirpate; Ethiopic ለሐጠ፡ injure, violate; Tel Amarna šaḫâtu is fall (especially of city), be prostrate (? of land), perhaps Canaanism (see WklTelAm. Vocab.), Assyrian possibly šêtu, flee, escape (compare אבד); Old Aramaic (Zinjirli) שחת destroy Lzb374, Aramaic H7844 שְׁחַת, jeofw (assimilation of t), multilate; — very improbable Gerber179denominative from שַׁחַת); —
Niph. be marred, spoiled, Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִשְׁחַת, of waistcloth Jeremiah 13:7, vessel Jeremiah 18:4; be injured, or even (hyperb.) ruined, Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular תִּשָּׁחֵת Exodus 8:20 (J) of land (הֶעָרֹב מִפְּנֵי); be corrupted, corrupt, in mnorals and rel., of earth, Perfect 3rd person feminine singular נִשְׁחָ֑תָה Genesis 6:12 (P), Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular לִפְנֵי הָא׳ וַתִּשּׁ׳ Genesis 6:11 (P); so Participle feminine plural as adjective נִשְׁחָתוֺת Ezekiel 20:44.
Pi. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שִׁחֵת Exodus 32:7 +, suffix שִׁחֶתְךָ Hosea 13:9; 2nd person masculine singular שִׁחַתָּ Isaiah 14:20 +, etc.; Imperative masculine plural שַׁחֵ֑תוּ Jeremiah 5:10; Infinitive construct שַׁחֵת Genesis 13:10 +, etc.; —
1. spoil, ruin, accusative of eye Exodus 21:26 (E), vineyard Jeremiah 12:10 (figurative), branches Nahum 2:3 (figurative), also = destroy, accusative of person 2 Samuel 1:14; 2 Samuel 14:11 (accusative omitted), Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 20:17, כָּל־בָשָׂר Genesis 6:17; Genesis 9:15 (P), city, fortress, etc., Genesis 13:10; Genesis 19:13, 29 (all J), 2 Samuel 24:16; Jeremiah 5:10 (accusative omitted), Jeremiah 48:18; Ezekiel 26:4; Ezekiel 43:3; Lamentations 2:5, ruin temple Lamentations 2:6, nation Hosea 11:9; Hosea 13:9 (read perhaps שִׁחַתִּךָ Oort Now), land 2 Kings 19:12 (Hiph. in || Isaiah 37:12), Judges 6:5; Joshua 22:33 (P), Ezekiel 22:30; Ezekiel 30:11, earth Genesis 9:11 (P); with ל object (ל 3b), city 1 Samuel 23:10, person Numbers 32:15 (P); with accusative רַחֲמָיו Amos 1:11, destroyed (stifled) his compassion (or, RSK 28 and others, the bonds of kinship, see רַחֲמִים), בְּרִית Malachi 2:8, i.e. violate it, see especially אַרְצָה וְשׁ׳ (that is, semen) Genesis 38:9 (J) he spoiled (it) upon the ground, made it ineffective, = waste words Proverbs 23:8.
2. pervert, corrupt, accusative wisdom Ezekiel 28:17, absolute = deal corruptly, הֶעֱמִיקוּ שִׁחֵתוּ Hosea 9:9 (compare [עָמֹק], p.770:b; but We Now read שַׁחְתּוֺ, √ שׁוח), Exodus 32:7 (JE), Deuteronomy 9:12, so לוֺ שׁ׳ Deuteronomy 32:5.
Hiph. 103 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִשְׁחִית Genesis 6:12 +; 1st person singular וְהִשְׁחַתִּ֫י Jeremiah 51:20, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַשְׁחִית Daniel 8:24 +, יַשְׁחִת Malachi 3:11 +, וַיַּשְׁחֵת 1 Chronicles 20:1; 2nd person feminine singular וַתַּשְׁחִתִי Ezekiel 16:47, 2nd person masculine plural תַּשְׁחִתוּן Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 31:29; Imperative masculine singular suffix הַשְׁחִיתָהּ 2 Kings 18:25 = Isaiah 36:10; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁחֵת Deuteronomy 31:29; construct הַשְׁחִית 1 Samuel 26:15 +, etc.; Participle מַשְׁחִית Genesis 19:14 +, etc.; —
1. spoil, ruin, accusative crop Judges 6:4; Malachi 3:11, trees Deuteronomy 20:19, 20; Jeremiah 11:19 (figurative), vessels 2 Chronicles 36:19, houses 2 Chronicles 34:11, palaces Jeremiah 6:5 compare Isaiah 65:8; Leviticus 19:27 (H), Ruth 4:6; דַּיָּם הִשׁ׳ Jeremiah 49:9 thieves damage as much as they want; accusative of person = ruin, destroy, 1 Samuel 26:9, 15; Judges 20:21, 25 (+ אַ֫רְצָה), Judges 20:35; Judges 20:42; 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Chronicles 24:23 (+ מִן separ.), + 12 times, + (accusative of person omitted) Isaiah 51:13 + 4 times, accusative בֵּית דָּוִד 2 Chronicles 21:7, absolute Isaiah 11:9 = Isaiah 65:25; also ruin one (by words) Proverbs 11:9; accusative עַם 2 Samuel 24:16; Deuteronomy 9:26; land 1 Samuel 6:5; Jeremiah 36:29; Daniel 11:17 (see Dr); city wall 2 Samuel 20:15 (Ew Th here denominative from שַׁחַת they were making a pit; < Greek Version of the LXX We (?) Klo Dr Bu HPS Now מְחַשְּׁבִים were devising), Lamentations 2:8, cities and nations Genesis 18:28 (twice in verse) (J, accusative omitted), Genesis 19:13, 14 (J), Isaiah 37:12 (Pi. in || 2 Kings 19:12), 2Ki 36:10 (twice in verse) = 2 Kings 18:25 (twice in verse) + 11 times + (Israel personified) Deuteronomy 4:31; Deuteronomy 10:10; 2 Kings 8:19, pride of Judah Jeremiah 13:9, earth Jeremiah 51:1; absolute with adverb accusative Daniel 8:24 (see Dr; Bev conjecture יְשׂחֵחַ or יָשִׂיחַ utter monstrous things), compare 1 Chronicles 21:12; Participle as adjective, of lion Jeremiah 2:30, angel 1 Chronicles 21:15; = destroyer Exodus 12:23 (J), Jeremiah 22:7; Isaiah 54:16, גּוֺיִם מ׳ Jeremiah 4:7, רוּחַ מ׳ Jeremiah 51:1; singular collective (הַמּ׳ Ges§ 126 l; the destroying band, compare Dr Bu Now) 1 Samuel 13:17; 1 Samuel 14:15 (spoilers, ravagers); figurative for snare, trap, Jeremiah 5:26.
†2. pervert, corrupt, morally, accusative דֶּרֶךְ Genesis 6:12 (P; see דֶּרֶךְ 6), נַפְשׁוֺ Proverbs 6:32, compare Zephaniah 3:7; Ezekiel 23:11 (מִן compare); הִשׁ׳ הִתְעִיבוּ עֲלִילָה Psalm 14:1 = Psalm 53:2; הַשְׁחֵת תַּשְׁח׳ (+ verb of particular act) Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 31:29; declar. = act corruptly, Isaiah 1:4; Deuteronomy 4:28 (+ verb of act), 2 Chronicles 27:2, + מִן compare Judges 2:19; Ezekiel 16:47; Participle as substantive Jeremiah 6:28, אִישׁ מַשׁ׳ Proverbs 28:24 (Proverbs 18:9 see infra). — אַל־תַּשְׁחֵת destroy not (catchword of old song or melody ?) in Psalm-titles: † [H516 Psalm 57:1; Psalm 58:1; Psalm 59:1; Psalm 75:1].
Hoph. Participle מָשְׁחָת spoiled, ruined, of a spring, מָקוֺר Proverbs 25:26 (|| נִרְפָּשׂ מַעְיָן); as substantive Malachi 1:14 sacrificing a spoiled thing.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:11; 6:12; 6:12; 6:12; 6:17; 9:11; 9:15; 13:10; 13:10; 18:28; 19:13; 19:13; 19:14; 19:14; 19:29; 38:9

Exodus

8:20; 12:23; 21:26; 32:7; 32:7

Leviticus

19:27

Numbers

32:15

Deuteronomy

4:16; 4:16; 4:28; 4:31; 9:12; 9:26; 10:10; 20:19; 20:20; 31:29; 31:29; 31:29; 32:5

Joshua

22:33

Judges

2:19; 6:4; 6:5; 20:21; 20:25; 20:35; 20:42

Ruth

4:6

1 Samuel

6:5; 13:17; 14:15; 23:10; 26:9; 26:15; 26:15

2 Samuel

1:14; 14:11; 20:15; 24:16; 24:16

2 Kings

8:19; 13:23; 18:25; 18:25; 19:12; 19:12

1 Chronicles

20:1; 21:12; 21:15

2 Chronicles

21:7; 24:23; 27:2; 34:11; 36:19

Psalms

14:1; 53:2

Proverbs

6:32; 11:9; 18:9; 23:8; 25:26; 28:24

Isaiah

1:4; 11:9; 14:20; 36:10; 37:12; 37:12; 51:13; 54:16; 65:8; 65:25

Jeremiah

2:30; 4:7; 5:10; 5:10; 5:26; 6:5; 6:28; 11:19; 12:10; 13:7; 13:9; 18:4; 22:7; 36:29; 48:18; 49:9; 51:1; 51:1; 51:20

Lamentations

2:5; 2:6; 2:8

Ezekiel

5:16; 16:47; 16:47; 20:17; 20:44; 22:30; 23:11; 26:4; 28:17; 30:11; 43:3

Daniel

8:24; 8:24; 11:17

Hosea

9:9; 11:9; 13:9; 13:9

Amos

1:11

Nahum

2:3

Zephaniah

3:7

Malachi

1:14; 2:8; 3:11; 3:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7843 matches the Hebrew שָׁחַת (šāḥaṯ),
which occurs 147 times in 136 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 3 (Jer 18:4–Mal 3:11)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled H7843 in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:7 -

“For I will set apart destroyers H7843 against you,

Each with his weapons;

And they will cut down your choicest cedars

And throw them on the fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - “And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘This is what the LORD says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it [fn]that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy H7843 this land, and will make mankind and animals disappear from it?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:18 -

“Come down from your glory

And sit on the parched ground,

O daughter living in Dibon,

For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,

He has ruined H7843 your strongholds.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:9 -

“If grape pickers came to you,

Would they not leave gleanings?

If thieves came by night,

They would destroy H7843 only what was sufficient for them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:1 -

This is what the LORD says:

“Behold, I am going to stir up

[fn]The spirit of a destroyer H7843 against Babylon

And against the inhabitants of [fn]Leb-kamai.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11 -

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!

The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes,

Because His plan is against Babylon to destroy H7843 it;

For it is the vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:20 -

He says, “You are My [fn]war-club, My weapon of war;

And with you I shatter nations,

And with you I destroy H7843 kingdoms.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 -

“Behold, I am against you, mountain of destruction

That destroys H7843 the whole earth,” declares the LORD,

“And I will stretch out My hand against you,

And roll you down from the rocky cliffs,

And I will make you a burnt out mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 -

The Lord has become like an enemy.

He has engulfed Israel;

He has engulfed all its palaces,

He has destroyed H7843 its strongholds

And caused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6 -

And He has treated His [fn]tabernacle violently, like a despised garden;

He has destroyed H7843 His appointed [fn]meeting place.

The LORD has caused

The appointed feast and Sabbath in Zion to be forgotten,

And He has despised king and priest

In the indignation of His anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8 -

The LORD determined to destroy H7843

The wall of the daughter of Zion.

He has stretched out a line,

He has not restrained His hand from [fn]destroying,

And He has caused rampart and wall to mourn;

They have languished together.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:16 - ‘When I send against them the [fn]deadly arrows of famine which [fn]were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy H7843 you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break off your [fn]provision of bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - And as they were striking the people and I alone was left, I fell on my face and cried out, [fn]saying, “Oh, Lord [fn]GOD! Are You going to destroy H7843 the entire remnant of Israel [fn]by pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:47 - “Yet you have not merely walked in their ways and [fn]committed their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you also acted H7843 more corruptly H7843 in all your conduct than they.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:17 - “Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying H7843 them, and I did not bring about their annihilation in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:44 - “Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you in behalf of My name, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt H7843 deeds, house of Israel,” declares the Lord GOD.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:30 - “I searched for a man among them who would build up a wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy H7843 it; but I found [fn]no one.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 -

“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was H7843 more corrupt H7843 in her lust than she, and her obscene practices were [fn]more than the prostitution of her sister.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - ‘They will destroy H7843 the walls of Tyre and tear down her towers; and I will sweep her debris away from her and make her a bare rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:17 -

“Your heart was haughty because of your beauty;

You corrupted H7843 your wisdom by reason of your splendor.

I threw you to the ground;

I put you before kings,

That they may see you.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 -

“He and his people with him,

The most ruthless of the nations,

Will be brought in to destroy H7843 the land;

And they will draw their swords against Egypt

And fill the land with the slain.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:3 - And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when [fn]He came to destroy H7843 the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:24 -

“And his power will be mighty, but not by his own power,

And he will [fn]destroy H7843 to an extraordinary degree

And be successful and do as he pleases;

He will [fn]destroy H7843 mighty men and [fn]the holy people.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:25 -

“And through his shrewdness

He will make deceit a success by his [fn]influence;

And he will make himself great in his [fn]own mind,

And he will [fn]destroy H7843 many while they are [fn]at ease.

He will even [fn]oppose the Prince of princes,

But he will be broken without [fn]human agency.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:26 - “Then after the sixty-two weeks, the [fn]Messiah will be cut off and have [fn]nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy H7843 the city and the sanctuary. And [fn]its end will come with a flood; even to the end [fn]there will be war; desolations are determined.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:17 - “And he will set his [fn]mind on coming with the power of his entire kingdom, [fn]bringing with him [fn]a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin H7843 it. But she will not take a stand for him or be [fn]on his side.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:9 -

They are H7843 deeply depraved H7843

As in the days of Gibeah;

He will remember their guilt,

He will punish their sins.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:9 -

I will not carry out My fierce anger;

I will not destroy H7843 Ephraim again.

For I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst,

And I will not come in [fn]wrath.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:9 -

[fn]It is to your own destruction H7843, Israel,

That you are against Me, against your help.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 -

This is what the LORD says:

“For three offenses of Edom, and for four,

I will not revoke its punishment,

Because he pursued his brother with the sword

And stifled H7843 his compassion;

His anger also tore continually,

And he maintained his fury forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:2 -

For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob

Like the splendor of Israel,

Even though destroyers have laid waste to them

And ruined H7843 their vines.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:7 -

“I said, ‘You will certainly revere Me,

You will accept discipline.’

So her dwelling will not be eliminated

In accordance with everything that I have stipulated for her.

Instead, they were eager to corrupt H7843 all their deeds.

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:14 - “But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished H7843 animal to the Lord, for I am a great King,” says the LORD of armies, “and My name is [fn]feared among the [fn]nations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:8 - “But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble [fn]by the instruction; you have ruined H7843 the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:11 - “Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy H7843 the fruit of your ground; nor will the vine in the field prove fruitless to you,” says the LORD of armies.

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