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 · וְנִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יJacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”Leviticus 26:30 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֞יI will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.Numbers 33:52 · תַּשְׁמִֽידוּ׃then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.Deuteronomy 1:27 · לְהַשְׁמִידֵֽנוּ׃and you murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has 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 lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)Deuteronomy 2:21 · וַיַּשְׁמִידֵ֤םa people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;Deuteronomy 2:22 · הִשְׁמִ֤ידas he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:Deuteronomy 2:23 · הִשְׁמִידֻ֖םand the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)Deuteronomy 4:3 · הִשְׁמִיד֛וֹYour eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.Deuteronomy 4:26 · הִשָּׁמֵ֖ד · תִּשָּׁמֵדֽוּן׃I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.Deuteronomy 6:15 · וְהִשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 7:4 · וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ֖For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.Deuteronomy 7:23 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽם׃But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.Deuteronomy 7:24 · הִשְׁמִֽדְךָ֖He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.Deuteronomy 9:3 · יַשְׁמִידֵ֛םKnow therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.Deuteronomy 9:8 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידAlso in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh 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 the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”Deuteronomy 9:19 · לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידFor I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.Deuteronomy 9:20 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֑וֹYahweh 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 Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.Deuteronomy 12:30 · הִשָּׁמְדָ֣םtake heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”Deuteronomy 28:20 · הִשָּֽׁמֶדְךָ֤Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.Deuteronomy 28:24 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:45 · הִשָּֽׁמְדָ֑ךְAll these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn’t listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:Deuteronomy 28:48 · הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹtherefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.Deuteronomy 28:51 · הִשָּֽׁמְדָךְ֒and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.Deuteronomy 28:61 · הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.Deuteronomy 28:63 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֣ידIt shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.Deuteronomy 31:3 · יַשְׁמִ֞ידYahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.Deuteronomy 31:4 · הִשְׁמִ֖ידYahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.Deuteronomy 33:27 · הַשְׁמֵֽד׃The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’Joshua 7:12 · תַשְׁמִ֛ידוּTherefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.Joshua 9:24 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֛ידThey answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your 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 very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.Joshua 11:14 · הִשְׁמִדָם֙The children of Israel took all the spoil of these cities, with the livestock, as spoils for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.Joshua 11:20 · הַשְׁמִידָ֔םFor it was of Yahweh 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 Yahweh commanded Moses.Joshua 23:15 · הַשְׁמִיד֣וֹIt shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,Joshua 24:8 · וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֖ם“‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.Judges 21:16 · נִשְׁמְדָ֥הThen the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”1 Samuel 24:21 · תַּשְׁמִ֥ידSwear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house.”2 Samuel 14:7 · וְנַשְׁמִ֖ידָהBehold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”2 Samuel 14:11 · יַשְׁמִ֖ידוּThen she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”2 Samuel 14:16 · לְהַשְׁמִ֨ידFor the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.2 Samuel 21:5 · נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּThey said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,2 Samuel 22:38 · וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֑םI have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.1 Kings 13:34 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֔ידThis thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.1 Kings 15:29 · הִשְׁמִד֑וֹIt happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn’t leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;1 Kings 16:12 · וַיַּשְׁמֵ֣דThus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,2 Kings 10:17 · הִשְׁמִיד֑וֹWhen he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to Elijah.2 Kings 10:28 · וַיַּשְׁמֵ֥דThus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.2 Kings 21:9 · הִשְׁמִ֣ידBut they didn’t listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.1 Chronicles 5:25 · הִשְׁמִ֥ידThey trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.2 Chronicles 20:10 · הִשְׁמִידֽוּם׃Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn’t destroy them;2 Chronicles 20:23 · וּלְהַשְׁמִ֑ידFor the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.2 Chronicles 33:9 · הִשְׁמִ֣ידManasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel did.Esther 3:6 · לְהַשְׁמִ֧ידBut he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.Esther 3:13 · לְהַשְׁמִ֡ידLetters were sent by couriers 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 on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.Esther 4:8 · לְהַשְׁמִידָם֙He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to 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 bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”Esther 8:11 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֩In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,Psalm 37:38 · נִשְׁמְד֣וּAs for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.Psalm 83:10 · נִשְׁמְד֥וּwho perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.Psalm 92:7 · לְהִשָּֽׁמְדָ֥םthough the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.Psalm 106:23 · לְֽהַשְׁמִ֫ידָ֥םTherefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.Psalm 106:34 · הִ֭שְׁמִידוּThey didn’t destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,Psalm 145:20 · יַשְׁמִֽיד׃Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.Proverbs 14:11 · יִשָּׁמֵ֑דThe house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.Isaiah 10:7 · לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידHowever he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.Isaiah 13:9 · יַשְׁמִ֥ידBehold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.Isaiah 14:23 · הַשְׁמֵ֔ד“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.Isaiah 23:11 · לַשְׁמִ֖דHe has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.Isaiah 26:14 · וַתַּשְׁמִידֵ֔םThe dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.Isaiah 48:19 · יִשָּׁמֵ֛דyour seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.Jeremiah 48:8 · וְנִשְׁמַ֣דThe destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.Jeremiah 48:42 · וְנִשְׁמַ֥דMoab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.Lamentations 3:66 · וְתַשְׁמִידֵ֔םYou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.Daniel 11:44 · לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידBut news 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, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”Amos 2:9 · הִשְׁמַ֤דְתִּי · וָאַשְׁמִ֤ידYet I destroyed 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 Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.Micah 5:14 · וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יI will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.Haggai 2:22 · וְהִ֨שְׁמַדְתִּ֔יI will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.Zechariah 12:9 · לְהַשְׁמִיד֙It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.