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)


  • Jeremiah 48:18 - come down from thy glory and sit in thirst and sit Thou daughter Dibon for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee and he shall destroy thy strong holds

  • Jeremiah 49:9 - If grapegatherers come to thee would they not leave some gleaning grapes if thieves by night they will destroy till they have enough

  • Jeremiah 51:1 - Thus saith the LORD Behold I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up wind against me a destroying

  • Jeremiah 51:11 - Make bright the arrows gather the shields hath raised up of the LORD the spirit of the kings of the Medes is against Babylon for his device to destroy it because it is the vengeance of the LORD it because it is the vengeance of his temple

  • Jeremiah 51:20 - Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war for with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms

  • Jeremiah 51:25 - mountain Behold I am against thee O destroying saith the LORD which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and will make mountain thee a burnt

  • Joshua 22:33 - pleased And the thing and the children of Israel blessed God and the children of Israel and did not intend to go up against them in battle to destroy the land and the children of Reuben and the children and Gad dwelt

  • Judges 2:19 - And it came to pass when the judge that they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers gods other to serve them and to bow down unto them they ceased not from their own doings way nor from their stubborn

  • Judges 6:4 - And they encamped against them and destroyed the increase of the earth till thou come unto Gaza and left no sustenance for Israel neither sheep nor ox nor ass

  • Judges 6:5 - with their cattle For they came up and their tents and they came as grasshoppers for multitude for both they and their camels were without number and they came into the land to destroy

  • Judges 20:21 - came forth And the children of Benjamin out of Gibeah and destroyed down of the Israelites that day and two twenty thousand men to the ground

  • Judges 20:25 - went forth And Benjamin against them out of Gibeah day the second and destroyed down of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men to the ground all these drew the sword

  • Judges 20:35 - smote And the LORD Benjamin before Israel destroyed and the children Israel Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men all these drew the sword

  • Judges 20:42 - Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness but the battle overtook them and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst

  • Lamentations 2:5 - The Lord was as an enemy he hath swallowed up Israel he hath swallowed up all her palaces he hath destroyed his strong holds and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation

  • Lamentations 2:6 - And he hath violently taken away as if it were of a garden his tabernacle he hath destroyed hath caused the solemn feasts to be forgotten the LORD in Zion hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest

  • Lamentations 2:8 - hath purposed The LORD to destroy and the wall of the daughter of Zion he hath stretched out a line he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying to lament therefore he made the rampart and the wall together they languished

  • Leviticus 19:27 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard

  • Malachi 1:14 - But cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth a corrupt thing unto the Lord King for I am a great saith the LORD of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen

  • Malachi 2:8 - But ye are departed out of the way to stumble ye have caused many at the law ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi saith the LORD of hosts