Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H7843: שָׁחַת (shâchath) Definition

Strong's number
H7843
Lemma
שָׁחַת
Transliteration
shâchath
Pronunciation
shaw-khath'
Strong's definition
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively) batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r). a primitive root;

136 instances of the word שָׁחַת shâchath (H7843)


  • Deuteronomy 20:19 - When thou shalt besiege a city time a long in making war against it to take it thou shalt not destroy for the tree thereof by forcing an axe against them for thou mayest eat of them and thou shalt not cut them down is man's for the tree of the field life to employ them in the siege

  • Deuteronomy 20:20 - Only the trees which thou knowest Only the trees for meat thou shalt destroy and cut them down and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee until it be subdued

  • Deuteronomy 31:29 - For I know that after my death corrupt corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded will befall evil you in the latter days because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands

  • Deuteronomy 32:5 - They have corrupted is not the spot of his children themselves their spot generation they are a perverse and crooked

  • Exodus 8:24 - did And the LORD so and there came of the swarm a grievous houses of Pharaoh houses and into his servants and into all the land of Egypt was corrupted and into all the land by reason of the swarm

  • Exodus 12:23 - will pass through For the LORD to smite the Egyptians and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts will pass over For the LORD the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite

  • Exodus 21:26 - smite And if a man his eye's of his servant his eye's of his maid that it perish free he shall let him go for his eye's

  • Exodus 32:7 - said And the LORD unto Moses get thee down have corrupted for thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt

  • Ezekiel 5:16 - When I shall send arrows of famine upon them the evil which shall be for their destruction When I shall send to destroy of famine you and I will increase upon you and will break your staff of bread

  • Ezekiel 9:8 - And it came to pass while they were slaying them and I was left that I fell upon my face and cried and said Ah Lord GOD wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem

  • Ezekiel 16:47 - after their ways Yet hast thou not walked after their abominations nor done little but as if that were a very thing thou wast corrupted more than they after their ways

  • Ezekiel 20:17 - spared Nevertheless mine eye them from destroying them neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness

  • Ezekiel 20:44 - And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name's ways sake not according to your wicked doings nor according to your corrupt O ye house of Israel saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 22:30 - And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found

  • Ezekiel 23:11 - saw And when her sister Aholibah this she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she and in her whoredoms in her whoredoms And when her sister

  • Ezekiel 26:4 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus and break down her towers I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like the top of a rock

  • Ezekiel 28:17 - was lifted up Thine heart because of thy beauty thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness by reason of thee to the ground I will cast thee before kings I will lay that they may behold

  • Ezekiel 30:11 - He and his people with him the terrible of the nations shall be brought to destroy the land and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain

  • Ezekiel 43:3 - And it was according to the appearance And it was according to the appearance that I saw And it was according to the appearance that I saw when I came to destroy the city and the visions And it was according to the appearance that I saw by the river Chebar and I fell upon my face

  • Genesis 6:11 - also was corrupt The earth before God was filled The earth with violence