1) to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be annihilated, be exterminated 1a2) to be destroyed, be devastated 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to annihilate, exterminate 1b2) to destroy Aramaic equivalent: she.mad (שְׁמַד "to destroy" H8046)
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H8045 — שָׁמַד
sha.mad · to destroy · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 34:30 · וְנִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יAnd Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.Leviticus 26:30 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֞יAnd I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.Numbers 33:52 · תַּשְׁמִֽידוּ׃then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:Deuteronomy 1:27 · לְהַשְׁמִידֵֽנוּ׃and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.Deuteronomy 2:12 · וַיַּשְׁמִידוּם֙The Horites also dwelt in Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave unto them).Deuteronomy 2:21 · וַיַּשְׁמִידֵ֤םa people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;Deuteronomy 2:22 · הִשְׁמִ֤ידas he did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:Deuteronomy 2:23 · הִשְׁמִידֻ֖םAnd the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)Deuteronomy 4:3 · הִשְׁמִיד֛וֹYour eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.Deuteronomy 4:26 · הִשָּׁמֵ֖ד · תִּשָּׁמֵדֽוּן׃I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.Deuteronomy 6:15 · וְהִשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 7:4 · וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ֖For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.Deuteronomy 7:23 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽם׃But Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.Deuteronomy 7:24 · הִשְׁמִֽדְךָ֖And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.Deuteronomy 9:3 · יַשְׁמִידֵ֛םKnow therefore this day, that Jehovah thy God is he who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee: so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath spoken unto thee.Deuteronomy 9:8 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידAlso in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.Deuteronomy 9:14 · וְאַשְׁמִידֵ֔םlet me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.Deuteronomy 9:19 · לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידFor I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also.Deuteronomy 9:20 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֑וֹAnd Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.Deuteronomy 9:25 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידSo I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.Deuteronomy 12:30 · הִשָּׁמְדָ֣םtake heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.Deuteronomy 28:20 · הִשָּֽׁמֶדְךָ֤Jehovah will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.Deuteronomy 28:24 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:45 · הִשָּֽׁמְדָ֑ךְAnd all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:Deuteronomy 28:48 · הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹtherefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.Deuteronomy 28:51 · הִשָּֽׁמְדָךְ֒and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish.Deuteronomy 28:61 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:63 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֣ידAnd it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it.Deuteronomy 31:3 · יַשְׁמִ֞ידJehovah thy God, he will go over before thee; he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.Deuteronomy 31:4 · הִשְׁמִ֖ידAnd Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed.Deuteronomy 33:27 · הַשְׁמֵֽד׃The eternal God is thy dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.Joshua 7:12 · תַשְׁמִ֛ידוּTherefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the devoted thing from among you.Joshua 9:24 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֛ידAnd they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that Jehovah thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.Joshua 11:14 · הִשְׁמִדָם֙And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.Joshua 11:20 · הַשְׁמִידָ֔םFor it was of Jehovah to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.Joshua 23:15 · הַשְׁמִיד֣וֹAnd it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon you of which Jehovah your God spake unto you, so will Jehovah bring upon you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.Joshua 24:8 · וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֖םAnd I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that dwelt beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.Judges 21:16 · נִשְׁמְדָ֥הThen the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?1 Samuel 24:21 · תַּשְׁמִ֥ידSwear now therefore unto me by Jehovah, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.2 Samuel 14:7 · וְנַשְׁמִ֖ידָהAnd, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.2 Samuel 14:11 · יַשְׁמִ֖ידוּThen said she, I pray thee, let the king remember Jehovah thy God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As Jehovah liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.2 Samuel 14:16 · לְהַשְׁמִ֨ידFor the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.2 Samuel 21:5 · נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּAnd they said unto the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,2 Samuel 22:38 · וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֑םI have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.1 Kings 13:34 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֔ידAnd this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.1 Kings 15:29 · הִשְׁמִד֑וֹAnd it came to pass that, as soon as he was king, he smote all the house of Jeroboam: he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him; according unto the saying of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;1 Kings 16:12 · וַיַּשְׁמֵ֣דThus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,2 Kings 10:17 · הִשְׁמִיד֑וֹAnd when he came to Samaria, he smote all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake to Elijah.2 Kings 10:28 · וַיַּשְׁמֵ֥דThus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.2 Kings 21:9 · הִשְׁמִ֣ידBut they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.1 Chronicles 5:25 · הִשְׁמִ֥ידAnd they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.2 Chronicles 20:10 · הִשְׁמִידֽוּם׃And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and destroyed them not;2 Chronicles 20:23 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֑ידFor the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.2 Chronicles 33:9 · הִשְׁמִ֣ידAnd Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.Esther 3:6 · לְהַשְׁמִ֧ידBut he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.Esther 3:13 · לְהַשְׁמִ֡ידAnd letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.Esther 4:8 · לְהַשְׁמִידָם֙Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him, for her people.Esther 7:4 · לְהַשְׁמִ֖ידfor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s damage.Esther 8:11 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֩wherein the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,Psalm 37:38 · נִשְׁמְד֣וּAs for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.Psalm 83:10 · נִשְׁמְד֥וּWho perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.Psalm 92:7 · לְהִשָּֽׁמְדָ֥םWhen the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.Psalm 106:23 · לְֽהַשְׁמִ֫ידָ֥םTherefore he said that he would destroy them, Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.Psalm 106:34 · הִ֭שְׁמִידוּThey did not destroy the peoples, As Jehovah commanded them,Psalm 145:20 · יַשְׁמִֽיד׃Jehovah preserveth all them that love him; But all the wicked will he destroy.Proverbs 14:11 · יִשָּׁמֵ֑דThe house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.Isaiah 10:7 · לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידHowbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.Isaiah 13:9 · יַשְׁמִ֥ידBehold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.Isaiah 14:23 · הַשְׁמֵ֔דI will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.Isaiah 23:11 · לַשְׁמִ֖דHe hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.Isaiah 26:14 · וַתַּשְׁמִידֵ֔םThey are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.Isaiah 48:19 · יִשָּׁמֵ֛דthy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.Jeremiah 48:8 · וְנִשְׁמַ֣דAnd the destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Jehovah hath spoken.Jeremiah 48:42 · וְנִשְׁמַ֥דAnd Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.Lamentations 3:66 · וְתַשְׁמִידֵ֔םThou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.Daniel 11:44 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידBut tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.Hosea 10:8 · וְנִשְׁמְד֞וּThe high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.Amos 2:9 · הִשְׁמַ֤דְתִּי · וָאַשְׁמִ֤ידYet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.Amos 9:8 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֣י · הַשְׁמֵ֥יד · אַשְׁמִ֛ידBehold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.Micah 5:14 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יand I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.Haggai 2:22 · וְהִ֨שְׁמַדְתִּ֔יand I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.Zechariah 12:9 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֙And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.