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)


  • Genesis 6:12 - looked And God upon the earth and behold it was corrupt and behold it was corrupt for all flesh his way upon the earth

  • Genesis 6:13 - said And God unto Noah The end of all flesh is come before me is filled with for the earth violence before me and behold I will destroy them with for the earth

  • Genesis 6:17 - I And behold even I do bring a flood of waters that is in the earth to destroy and every thing all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and every thing that is in the earth shall die

  • Genesis 9:11 - And I will establish my covenant be cut off with you neither shall all flesh any more by the waters neither shall there any more be a flood neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth

  • Genesis 9:15 - And I will remember my covenant creature which is between me and you and every living all flesh shall no more and the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh

  • Genesis 13:10 - lifted up And Lot his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan that it was well watered every where before destroyed of the LORD Sodom and Gomorrah even as the garden of the LORD like the land of Egypt as thou comest unto Zoar

  • Genesis 18:28 - Peradventure there shall lack of the fifty righteous and five I will not destroy and five all the city And he said I will not destroy If I find there forty and five

  • Genesis 18:31 - And he said Behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord found Peradventure there shall be twenty And he said I will not destroy Peradventure there shall be twenty

  • Genesis 18:32 - And he said be angry Oh let not the Lord and I will speak yet but this once shall be found Peradventure ten And he said I will not destroy Peradventure ten

  • Genesis 19:13 - us to destroy For we this place is waxen great because the cry of them before the face and the LORD hath sent and the LORD us to destroy

  • Genesis 19:14 - get you out And Lot and spake his sons in law which married his daughters and said Up get you out of this place will destroy for the LORD this city But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law

  • Genesis 19:29 - destroyed And it came to pass when God the cities of the plain remembered And it came to pass when God Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities dwelt in the which Lot

  • Genesis 38:9 - knew And Onan seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went in wife to his brother that he spilled it on the ground lest that he should give seed to his brother

  • Hosea 9:9 - They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah therefore he will remember their iniquity he will visit their sins

  • Hosea 11:9 - I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger I will not return to destroy Ephraim for I am God in the midst the Holy One of thee and I will not enter into the city

  • Hosea 13:9 - thou hast destroyed O Israel thyself but in me is thine help

  • Isaiah 1:4 - Ah nation sinful a people laden with iniquity a seed of evildoers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the LORD they have provoked the Holy One of Israel they are gone away backward

  • Isaiah 11:9 - They shall not hurt nor destroy mountain in all my holy shall be full for the earth of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters the sea cover

  • Isaiah 14:20 - Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial thy land because thou hast destroyed thy people and slain be renowned shall never the seed of evildoers

  • Isaiah 36:10 - without it the LORD And am I now come up against this land and destroy it the LORD said And am I now come up against this land and destroy