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)


  • Isaiah 37:12 - delivered Have the gods of the nations have destroyed them which my fathers as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden which were in Telassar

  • Isaiah 51:13 - And forgettest the LORD thy maker that hath stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day because and where is the fury of the oppressor as if he were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the oppressor

  • Isaiah 54:16 - Behold I have created the smith that bloweth in the fire the coals and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work Behold I have created the waster to destroy

  • Isaiah 65:8 - Thus saith the LORD is found As the new wine in the cluster Thus saith Destroy it not for a blessing is in it so will I do for my servants Destroy

  • Isaiah 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion like the bullock shall eat straw shall be the serpent's and dust meat They shall not hurt nor destroy mountain in all my holy saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 2:30 - In vain have I smitten your children no correction they received hath devoured your own sword your prophets lion like a destroying

  • Jeremiah 4:7 - is come up The lion from his thicket and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate and thy cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant

  • Jeremiah 5:10 - Go ye up upon her walls and destroy not a full end but make take away her battlements for they are not the LORD'S

  • Jeremiah 6:5 - Arise and let us go by night and let us destroy her palaces

  • Jeremiah 6:28 - They are all grievous revolters walking with slanders they are brass and iron they are all corrupters

  • Jeremiah 11:19 - But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter and I knew not that they had devised devices against me saying Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof and let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name may be no more remembered

  • Jeremiah 12:10 - pastors Many have destroyed my vineyard they have trodden my portion they have made my portion my pleasant wilderness a desolate

  • Jeremiah 13:7 - to Euphrates and digged and took it and behold the girdle from the place where I had hid was marred it and behold the girdle it was profitable

  • Jeremiah 13:9 - Thus saith the LORD After this manner will I mar pride of Judah pride of Jerusalem and the great

  • Jeremiah 13:14 - And I will dash them one against another even the fathers and the sons together saith the LORD I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy but destroy

  • Jeremiah 15:3 - And I will appoint over them four kinds saith the LORD the sword to slay and the dogs to tear and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy

  • Jeremiah 15:6 - Thou hast forsaken me saith the LORD backward therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee and destroy thee I am weary with repenting

  • Jeremiah 18:4 - was marred And the vessel so he made of clay in the hand of the potter it again so he made And the vessel another good as seemed of the potter so he made

  • Jeremiah 22:7 - And I will prepare destroyers against thee every one with his weapons and they shall cut down thy choice cedars and cast them into the fire

  • Jeremiah 36:29 - to Jehoiakim The king of Judah And thou shalt say And thou shalt say the LORD Thou hast burned this roll And thou shalt say Why hast thou written And thou shalt say come come The king of Babylon and destroy this land and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast