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)


  • Malachi 3:11 - And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground cast her fruit neither shall your vine before the time in the field saith the LORD of hosts

  • Nahum 2:2 - hath turned away For the LORD as the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel for the emptiers for the emptiers their vine branches and marred

  • Numbers 32:15 - For if ye turn away from after him he will yet again leave them in the wilderness and ye shall destroy all this people

  • Proverbs 6:32 - But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding it destroyeth his own soul he that doeth

  • Proverbs 11:9 - with his mouth An hypocrite destroyeth his neighbour but through knowledge shall the just be delivered

  • Proverbs 18:9 - He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster

  • Proverbs 23:8 - The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up and lose words thy sweet

  • Proverbs 25:26 - fountain is as a troubled spring and a corrupt A righteous man falling down before the wicked

  • Proverbs 28:24 - Whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith It is no transgression the same is the companion of a destroyer

  • Psalms 14:1 - hath said The fool in his heart There is no God They are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doeth good

  • Psalms 53:1 - hath said The fool in his heart There is no God Corrupt are they and have done abominable iniquity there is none that doeth good

  • Psalms 78:38 - But he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time away he his anger and did not stir up all his wrath

  • Psalms 78:45 - He sent divers sorts of flies among them which devoured them and frogs which destroyed

  • Psalms 106:23 - Therefore he said that he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood him in the breach before to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy

  • Ruth 4:6 - said And the kinsman I cannot And the kinsman And the kinsman it for myself lest I mar mine own inheritance And the kinsman thou my right I cannot And the kinsman

  • Zephaniah 3:7 - I said Surely thou wilt fear me thou wilt receive instruction should not be cut off so their dwelling howsoever I punished them but they rose early and corrupted all their doings