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 · וְנִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יThen Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”Leviticus 26:30 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֞יI will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.Numbers 33:52 · תַּשְׁמִֽידוּ׃you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.Deuteronomy 1:27 · לְהַשְׁמִידֵֽנוּ׃You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.Deuteronomy 2:12 · וַיַּשְׁמִידוּם֙The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)Deuteronomy 2:21 · וַיַּשְׁמִידֵ֤םThey were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,Deuteronomy 2:22 · הִשְׁמִ֤ידjust as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.Deuteronomy 2:23 · הִשְׁמִידֻ֖םAnd the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)Deuteronomy 4:3 · הִשְׁמִיד֛וֹYour eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.Deuteronomy 4:26 · הִשָּׁמֵ֖ד · תִּשָּׁמֵדֽוּן׃I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.Deuteronomy 6:15 · וְהִשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 7:4 · וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ֖because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.Deuteronomy 7:23 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽם׃But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.Deuteronomy 7:24 · הִשְׁמִֽדְךָ֖He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.Deuteronomy 9:3 · יַשְׁמִידֵ֛םBut understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.Deuteronomy 9:8 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידAt Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.Deuteronomy 9:14 · וְאַשְׁמִידֵ֔םLeave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”Deuteronomy 9:19 · לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידFor I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.Deuteronomy 9:20 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֑וֹThe LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.Deuteronomy 9:25 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידSo I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.Deuteronomy 12:30 · הִשָּׁמְדָ֣םbe careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”Deuteronomy 28:20 · הִשָּֽׁמֶדְךָ֤The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.Deuteronomy 28:24 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:45 · הִשָּֽׁמְדָ֑ךְAll these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.Deuteronomy 28:48 · הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹyou will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.Deuteronomy 28:51 · הִשָּֽׁמְדָךְ֒They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.Deuteronomy 28:61 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:63 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֣ידJust as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.Deuteronomy 31:3 · יַשְׁמִ֞ידThe LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.Deuteronomy 31:4 · הִשְׁמִ֖ידAnd the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.Deuteronomy 33:27 · הַשְׁמֵֽד׃The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’Joshua 7:12 · תַשְׁמִ֛ידוּThis is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.Joshua 9:24 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֛ידThe Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.Joshua 11:14 · הִשְׁמִדָם֙The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.Joshua 11:20 · הַשְׁמִידָ֔םFor it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.Joshua 23:15 · הַשְׁמִיד֣וֹBut just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.Joshua 24:8 · וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֖םLater, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.Judges 21:16 · נִשְׁמְדָ֥הThen the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”1 Samuel 24:21 · תַּשְׁמִ֥ידSo now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”2 Samuel 14:7 · וְנַשְׁמִ֖ידָהNow the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”2 Samuel 14:11 · יַשְׁמִ֖ידוּ“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”2 Samuel 14:16 · לְהַשְׁמִ֨ידFor the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’2 Samuel 21:5 · נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּAnd they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,2 Samuel 22:38 · וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֑םI pursued my enemies and destroyed them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.1 Kings 13:34 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֔ידAnd this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.1 Kings 15:29 · הִשְׁמִד֑וֹAs soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone who breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,1 Kings 16:12 · וַיַּשְׁמֵ֣דSo Zimri destroyed the entire household of Baasha, according to the word that the LORD had spoken against Baasha through Jehu the prophet.2 Kings 10:17 · הִשְׁמִיד֑וֹWhen Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down everyone belonging to Ahab who remained there, until he had destroyed them, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to Elijah.2 Kings 10:28 · וַיַּשְׁמֵ֥דThus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel,2 Kings 21:9 · הִשְׁמִ֣ידBut the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.1 Chronicles 5:25 · הִשְׁמִ֥ידBut they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.2 Chronicles 20:10 · הִשְׁמִידֽוּם׃And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt. So Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.2 Chronicles 20:23 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֑ידThe Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.2 Chronicles 33:9 · הִשְׁמִ֣ידSo Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.Esther 3:6 · לְהַשְׁמִ֧ידAnd when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.Esther 3:13 · לְהַשְׁמִ֡ידAnd the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.Esther 4:8 · לְהַשְׁמִידָם֙Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.Esther 7:4 · לְהַשְׁמִ֖ידFor my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”Esther 8:11 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֩By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.Psalm 37:38 · נִשְׁמְד֣וּBut the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.Psalm 83:10 · נִשְׁמְד֥וּwho perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.Psalm 92:7 · לְהִשָּֽׁמְדָ֥םthat though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.Psalm 106:23 · לְֽהַשְׁמִ֫ידָ֥םSo He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.Psalm 106:34 · הִ֭שְׁמִידוּThey did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,Psalm 145:20 · יַשְׁמִֽיד׃The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.Proverbs 14:11 · יִשָּׁמֵ֑דThe house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.Isaiah 10:7 · לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידBut this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.Isaiah 13:9 · יַשְׁמִ֥ידBehold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.Isaiah 14:23 · הַשְׁמֵ֔ד“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.Isaiah 23:11 · לַשְׁמִ֖דThe LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.Isaiah 26:14 · וַתַּשְׁמִידֵ֔םThe dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.Isaiah 48:19 · יִשָּׁמֵ֛דYour descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”Jeremiah 48:8 · וְנִשְׁמַ֣דThe destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.Jeremiah 48:42 · וְנִשְׁמַ֥דMoab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.Lamentations 3:66 · וְתַשְׁמִידֵ֔םYou will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.Daniel 11:44 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידBut news from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will go out with great fury to destroy many and devote them to destruction.Hosea 10:8 · וְנִשְׁמְד֞וּThe high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”Amos 2:9 · הִשְׁמַ֤דְתִּי · וָאַשְׁמִ֤ידYet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.Amos 9:8 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֣י · הַשְׁמֵ֥יד · אַשְׁמִ֛ידSurely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.Micah 5:14 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יI will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.Haggai 2:22 · וְהִ֨שְׁמַדְתִּ֔יI will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.Zechariah 12:9 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֙So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.