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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
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:25 - And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed H8045 before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed H8045 them not;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy H8045 them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed H8045 before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy H8045 all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, H8045 to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy H8045 them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:4 - For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, H8045 to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, H8045 to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:38 - But the transgressors shall be destroyed H8045 together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 83:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:10 - Which perished H8045 at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed H8045 for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23 - Therefore he said that he would destroy H8045 them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:34 - They did not destroy H8045 the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 145:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:20 - The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. H8045

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:11 - The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: H8045 but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy H8045 and cut off nations not a few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy H8045 the sinners thereof out of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, H8045 saith the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:11 - He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy H8045 the strong holds thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14 - They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed H8045 them, and made all their memory to perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed H8045 from before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, H8045 as the LORD hath spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:42 - And Moab shall be destroyed H8045 from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:66

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:66 - Persecute and destroy H8045 them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:9 - And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy H8045 him from the midst of my people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy H8045 thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12 - By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. H8045

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:16 - I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy H8045 the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, H8045 and utterly to make away many.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:8 - The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: H8045 the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - Yet destroyed H8045 I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed H8045 his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:8 - Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy H8045 it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly H8045 destroy H8045 the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:14 - And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy H8045 thy cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22 - And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy H8045 the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:9 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy H8045 all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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