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Lexicon :: Strong's H8045 - šāmaḏ

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שָׁמַד
Transliteration
šāmaḏ
Pronunciation
shaw-mad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2406

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁמַד shâmad, shaw-mad'; a primitive root; to desolate:—destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 90x

The KJV translates Strong's H8045 in the following manner: destroy (83x), destruction (1x), overthrown (1x), perished (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 90x
The KJV translates Strong's H8045 in the following manner: destroy (83x), destruction (1x), overthrown (1x), perished (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated

    1. (Niphal)

      1. to be annihilated, be exterminated

      2. to be destroyed, be devastated

    2. (Hiphil)

      1. to annihilate, exterminate

      2. to destroy

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁמַד shâmad, shaw-mad'; a primitive root; to desolate:—destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.
STRONGS H8045: Abbreviations
[שָׁמַד]90 verb
Niph. be exterminated, destroyed (Late Hebrew derived species; Aramaic שְׁמַד Pa. cause to apostatize (Jastr); Syriac bdb102901 seems disputed (in Lexicons); NöEut. Nab. 32 curse; BaES 10 cites Assyrian ašmud, I destroyed; Gerber112 thinks verb denominative); — Perfect 3rd person masculine singular consecutive וְנִשְׁמַד Ezekiel 32:12 +, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשָּׁמֵ Isaiah 48:19; Proverbs 14:11; 2nd person masculine plural תִּשָּׁמֵד֑וּן Deuteronomy 4:26; Infinitiveabsolute הִשָּׁמֵד Deuteronomy 4:26; construct suffix הִשָּׁמֶדְךָ Deuteronomy 28:20, etc.; —
†1. of person be annihilated, exterminated, Genesis 34:30 (J), Judges 21:16; 2 Samuel 21:5 (+ מֵהִתְיַצֵּב בְּ; — but read לְהַשְׁמִידֵגוּ Greek Version of the LXX Ew We Dr and others), Psalm 37:38 (|| נִכְדָת), Psalm 83:11; of people Deuteronomy 4:26 (הִשָּׁמֵד תּשּׁ׳), Deuteronomy 7:23; Deuteronomy 12:30 (+ מִפָּנֶיךָ Deuteronomy 28:20 (|| אָבַד Deuteronomy 28:24; Deuteronomy 28:45; Deuteronomy 28:51; Deuteronomy 28:61, Jeremiah 48:42 (+מֵעִם. Ezekiel 33:12; Psalm 92:8 (+ עֲדֵיעַֿד, compare also וְלֹא יִשָּׁמֵד שְׁמוֺ מִלְּפָנָי֑ Isaiah 48:19 (+ יִכָרֵת; וַרְעֶ֑ךָ etc., in || clause).
†2. be destroyed, of bamoth, Hosea 10:8, compare (בֵּית רְשָׁעִים) Proverbs 14:11; be devastated, of land, Jeremiah 48:8 (|| אבר).
Hiph.69 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִשְׁמִיד Deuteronomy 2:22 +, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַשְׁמִיד Isaiah 13:9 +, וַיַּשְׁמֵד 1 Kings 16:12; 2 Kings 10:28, etc.; Imperative masculine singular הַשְׁמֵד Deuteronomy 33:27; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁמֵד Isaiah 14:28, יֵ֯ד Amos 9:8; construct לְהַשְׁמִיר Joshua 9:24 +, also †עַד הִשְׁמִידְךָ Deuteronomy 7:24, וֺ- Deuteronomy 28:48, ָ֯ ם - Joshua 11:14 (but read in all הַשׁ׳, as Joshua 23:15, see DrDeuteronomy 7:24), לַשְׁמִד †Isaiah 23:11, etc.; —
1. annihilate, exterminate: accusative of person or a people, subject י׳ or human person, Deuteronomy 1:27; Deuteronomy 2:22 (+ מִפְּנֵי person), Deuteronomy 6:15 (+ הָאֲרָמָה מֵעַל־פְּנֵי), Deuteronomy 9:20 + 16 times Deuteronomy; Joshua 7:12 (accusative הַחֵרֶם; + מִקִּרְבְּכֶם), Joshua 9:24 + 4 times Joshua (all RD), 2 Kings 14:16; 1 Kings 13:34; Amos 9:8; Isaiah 13:9; Isaiah 26:14; Esther 3:6, 13 + 23 times; accusative וְשָׁרָשָׁיו פִּרְיוֹ (figurative) Amos 2:9, compare Ezekiel 34:16 (but Vrss Co Toy and others [not Hi Krae] אֶשְׁמֹר); אֶתשְֿׁמִי הִשׁ׳ 1 Samuel 24:22 (Gi 1 Samuel 24:21), 2 Samuel 22:38; 1 Kings 16:12; Psalm 145:20; הַשְׁמֵד as substantive, Isaiah 14:23 besom of extermination; accusative אֶתהַֿבַּעַל 2 Kings 10:28, of extirpating Baal-worship מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל.
†2. destroy, cities Micah 5:13, fortresses Isaiah 23:11, bamoth Leviticus 26:30 (H), Numbers 33:52 (P; || אִבֵּד), חֹזֶק מַמְלְכוֺת הַגּוֺיִם Haggai 2:22.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8046.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:30

Leviticus

26:30

Numbers

33:52

Deuteronomy

1:27; 2:22; 2:22; 4:26; 4:26; 4:26; 6:15; 7:23; 7:24; 7:24; 9:20; 12:30; 28:20; 28:20; 28:24; 28:45; 28:48; 28:51; 28:61; 33:27

Joshua

7:12; 9:24; 9:24; 11:14; 23:15

Judges

21:16

1 Samuel

24:21; 24:22

2 Samuel

21:5; 22:38

1 Kings

13:34; 16:12; 16:12

2 Kings

10:28; 10:28; 14:16

Esther

3:6; 3:13; 10

Psalms

37:38; 83:11; 92:8; 145:20

Proverbs

14:11; 14:11

Isaiah

13:9; 13:9; 14:23; 14:28; 23:11; 23:11; 26:14; 48:19; 48:19

Jeremiah

48:8; 48:42

Ezekiel

32:12; 33:12; 34:16

Hosea

10:8

Amos

2:9; 9:8; 9:8

Micah

5:13

Haggai

2:22

H8045

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8045 matches the Hebrew שָׁמַד (šāmaḏ),
which occurs 90 times in 86 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 34:30–2Ki 21:9)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - Ya`akov said to Shim`on and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Kana`anim and the Perizzi. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies on the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, to deliver us into the hand of the Amori, to destroy us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - The Hori also lived in Se`ir before, but the children of Esav succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Yisra'el did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:21 - a people great, and many, and tall, as the `Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22 - as he did for the children of Esav, who dwell in Se`ir, when he destroyed the Hori from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:23 - and the `Avvim, who lived in villages as far as `Aza, the Kaftorim, who came forth out of Kaftor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:3 - Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Ba`al-Pe`or; for all the men who followed Ba`al-Pe`or, the LORD your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26 - I call heaven and eretz to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Yarden to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4 - For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:23 - But the LORD your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:3 - Know therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:8 - Also in Horev you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19 - For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - The LORD was very angry with Aharon to destroy him: and I prayed for Aharon also at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:20 - The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his mitzvot and his statutes which he commanded you:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - therefore shall you serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:61

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring on you, until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:63

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - It shall happen that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3 - The LORD your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: and Yehoshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4 - The LORD will do to them as he did to Sichon and to `Og, the kings of the Amori, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27 - The eternal God is your dwelling-place, Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, Said, Destroy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12 - Therefore the children of Yisra'el can't stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with you any more, except you destroy the devoted thing from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24 - They answered Yehoshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that the LORD your God commanded his servant Moshe to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Yisra'el took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, to come against Yisra'el in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15 - It shall happen, that as all the good things are come on you of which the LORD your God spoke to you, so will the LORD bring on you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - I brought you into the land of the Amori, that lived beyond the Yarden: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - Then the Zakenim of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Binyamin?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21 - Swear now therefore to me by the LORD, that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - Then said she, Please let the king remember the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5 - They said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Yisra'el,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:38 - I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; Neither did I turn again until they were consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - This thing became sin to the house of Yarov`am, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Yarov`am: he didn't leave to Yarov`am any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Achiyah the Shiloni;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:12 - Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Ba`sha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Ba`sha by Yehu the prophet,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - When he came to Shomron, he struck all who remained to Ach'av in Shomron, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to Eliyah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28 - Thus Yehu destroyed Ba`al out of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they didn't listen: and Menashsheh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Yisra'el.

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