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 to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.Leviticus 26:30 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֞יAnd I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases 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 pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:Deuteronomy 1:27 · לְהַשְׁמִידֵֽנוּ׃And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD 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 Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.Deuteronomy 2:21 · וַיַּשְׁמִידֵ֤םA people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:Deuteronomy 2:22 · הִשְׁמִ֤ידAs he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:Deuteronomy 2:23 · הִשְׁמִידֻ֖םAnd the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, [even] unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)Deuteronomy 4:3 · הִשְׁמִיד֛וֹYour eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.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 Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong [your] days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.Deuteronomy 6:15 · וְהִשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔(For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 7:4 · וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ֖For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.Deuteronomy 7:23 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽם׃But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.Deuteronomy 7:24 · הִשְׁמִֽדְךָ֖And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.Deuteronomy 9:3 · יַשְׁמִידֵ֛םUnderstand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.Deuteronomy 9:8 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידAlso in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed 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 the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.Deuteronomy 9:20 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֑וֹAnd the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.Deuteronomy 9:25 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידThus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.Deuteronomy 12:30 · הִשָּׁמְדָ֣םTake heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.Deuteronomy 28:20 · הִשָּֽׁמֶדְךָ֤The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.Deuteronomy 28:24 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:45 · הִשָּֽׁמְדָ֑ךְMoreover 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 the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:Deuteronomy 28:48 · הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹTherefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD 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 he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which [also] shall not leave thee [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.Deuteronomy 28:61 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:63 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֣ידAnd it shall come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.Deuteronomy 31:3 · יַשְׁמִ֞ידThe LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, [and] he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.Deuteronomy 31:4 · הִשְׁמִ֖ידAnd the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.Deuteronomy 33:27 · הַשְׁמֵֽד׃The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy [them].Joshua 7:12 · תַשְׁמִ֛ידוּTherefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.Joshua 9:24 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֛ידAnd they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD 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 of 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 to breathe.Joshua 11:20 · הַשְׁמִידָ֔םFor it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.Joshua 23:15 · הַשְׁמִיד֣וֹTherefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.Joshua 24:8 · וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֖םAnd I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess 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 the LORD, 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 thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband [neither] name nor remainder upon the earth.2 Samuel 14:11 · יַשְׁמִ֖ידוּThen said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As] the LORD 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 handmaid 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 answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,2 Samuel 22:38 · וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֑םI have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.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, when he reigned, [that] 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,2 Kings 10:17 · הִשְׁמִיד֑וֹAnd when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, 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 more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.1 Chronicles 5:25 · הִשְׁמִ֥ידAnd they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people 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 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 · הִשְׁמִ֣ידSo Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.Esther 3:6 · לְהַשְׁמִ֧ידAnd he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed 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 the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, 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 at Shushan to destroy them, to shew [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 tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.Esther 8:11 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֩Wherein the king granted the Jews which [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, [both] little ones and women, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey,Psalm 37:38 · נִשְׁמְד֣וּBut the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.Psalm 83:10 · נִשְׁמְד֥וּ[Which] perished at Endor: they 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 nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:Psalm 145:20 · יַשְׁמִֽיד׃The LORD 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 tabernacle 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 cut off nations not a few.Isaiah 13:9 · יַשְׁמִ֥ידBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.Isaiah 14:23 · הַשְׁמֵ֔דI will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.Isaiah 23:11 · לַשְׁמִ֖דHe stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant [city], to destroy the strong holds thereof.Isaiah 26:14 · וַתַּשְׁמִידֵ֔ם[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.Isaiah 48:19 · יִשָּׁמֵ֛דThy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.Jeremiah 48:8 · וְנִשְׁמַ֣דAnd the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.Jeremiah 48:42 · וְנִשְׁמַ֥דAnd Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he hath magnified [himself] against the LORD.Lamentations 3:66 · וְתַשְׁמִידֵ֔םPersecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.Daniel 11:44 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידBut tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make 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 GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.Micah 5:14 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יAnd I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I 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 heathen; 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.