sha.chat H7843

שָׁחַת (sha.chat) means “to ruin” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

שָׁחַת Hebrew · H7843 146 tagged occurrences in 135 verses

Pronunciation guide: shaw-khath' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7843

שָׁחַת · sha.chat · to ruin

1) to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay 1a) (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to spoil, ruin 1b2) to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to spoil, ruin, destroy 1c2) to pervert, corrupt (morally) 1c3) destroyer (participle) 1d) (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle) Aramaic equivalent: she.chat (שְׁחַת "to corrupt" H7844)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)

KJV glosses: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r).

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How translators render H7843

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
to destroy	12
destroy	8
destroy it	5
and destroy	4
destroyed	4
and destroyed	3
destroy them	3
to destroy it	3
to destroy you	3
and cut down	2
and destroy it	2
destroys	2
have corrupted themselves	2
he has destroyed	2
he will destroy	2
the destroyer	2
they are corrupt	2
was ruined	2
a defective animal	1
act corruptly	1
and a destroyer	1
and blinds	1
and corrupt	1
and destroying	1
and did not destroy them	1
and i will destroy you	1
and raiders	1
and raiding parties	1
and ravage them	1
and ravaged	1
and ruined	1
and stifled	1
and waste	1
and you will be the cause of their destruction	1
are about to destroy	1
became flawed	1
behaved corruptly	1
but as the angel was doing so	1
corrupted themselves	1
destroy him	1
destroy him completely	1
destroy you	1
destroyers	1
from destroying them	1
had allowed to deteriorate	1
had corrupted	1
have destroyed	1
he will cause terrible destruction	1
he will destroy you	1
he would spill his seed	1
his people have acted corruptly	1
i will destroy both them	1
i will ruin	1
i would jeopardize	1
if you then act corruptly	1
in order to overthrow the kingdom	1
is about to destroy	1
it was corrupt	1
led to his own destruction	1
let us destroy	1
like a voracious	1
more depraved than they were	1
of a destroyer	1
of them are corrupt	1
on destruction	1
or a polluted	1
or clip off	1
ravaging	1
she was more depraved	1
slaughtered	1
struck them down	1
that are ravaging	1
that devastated them	1
the devastation	1
the israelites became even more corrupt	1
they destroyed	1
they will destroy	1
to corrupt	1
to destroy her	1
to destroy him	1
to destroy them	1
to keep me from destroying them	1
to ravage it	1
to ruin	1
was corrupt	1
were battering	1
who act corruptly	1
who destroys	1
who was destroying	1
who was destroying the people	1
will destroy	1
will you destroy	1
would they not steal	1
you are destroyed	1
you corrupted	1
you have destroyed	1
you have violated	1
you may destroy	1
you who devastate	1
you will become utterly corrupt	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
to destroy	20
and destroy	5
i will not destroy	4
not destroy	4
and destroyed	3
destroy	3
destroyed	3
have destroyed	3
and destroyed down	2
and the spoilers	2
corrupt	2
corrupted	2
have corrupted	2
he hath destroyed	2
nor destroy	2
shall destroy	2
that destroyed	2
was marred	2
will destroy	2
wilt thou destroy	2
a corrupt thing	1
after this manner will i mar	1
against me a destroying	1
against thee and destroy	1
against them and destroyed	1
all corrupters	1
also was corrupt	1
and a corrupt	1
and behold i will destroy	1
and behold it was corrupt	1
and corrupted	1
and did cast off	1
and he shall destroy	1
and let us destroy	1
and lose	1
and marred	1
and shall corrupt	1
and shall destroy	1
and the destroyer	1
and they destroyed	1
and they shall destroy	1
and wasted	1
and with thee will i destroy	1
and ye shall destroy	1
battered	1
because thou hast destroyed	1
but destroy	1
corrupting	1
destroyers	1
destroyeth	1
destroying	1
destruction	1
did yet corruptly	1
for myself lest i mar	1
for your sakes and he shall not destroy	1
from him that he would not destroy	1
had corrupted	1
had destroyed	1
he shall destroy	1
in to destroy	1
it and as he was destroying	1
it destroyeth	1
it thou shalt not destroy	1
lest he should destroy	1
lest ye corrupt	1
let us destroy	1
like a destroying	1
neither shalt thou mar	1
nor according to your corrupt	1
of a destroyer	1
or destroy	1
sakes that i may not destroy	1
she was more corrupt	1
that are corrupters	1
that he spilled	1
that i should not destroy	1
that it perish	1
that mar	1
the destroyer	1
the waster	1
thee neither destroy	1
them from destroying	1
they are corrupt	1
they destroyed	1
they have corrupted	1
they will destroy	1
thou hast corrupted	1
thou hast destroyed	1
thou shalt destroy	1
thou wast corrupted	1
us to destroy	1
was corrupted	1
waster	1
which destroyed	1
which destroyest	1
with me that he destroy	1
ye have corrupted	1
ye will utterly	1

Verses containing H7843

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Genesis 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
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Genesis 6:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
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Genesis 6:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
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Genesis 6:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
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Genesis 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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Genesis 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
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Genesis 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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Genesis 18:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”
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Genesis 18:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”
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Genesis 18:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.”
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Genesis 19:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
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Genesis 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
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Genesis 19:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
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Genesis 38:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
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Exodus 8:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of flies.
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Source alternate reference: 8.20
Exodus 12:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
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Exodus 21:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
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Exodus 32:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
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Leviticus 19:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
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Numbers 32:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
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Deuteronomy 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
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Deuteronomy 4:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
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Deuteronomy 4:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
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Deuteronomy 9:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
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Deuteronomy 9:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
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Deuteronomy 10:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
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Deuteronomy 20:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
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Deuteronomy 20:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
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Deuteronomy 31:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
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Deuteronomy 32:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
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Joshua 22:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Israelites were satisfied with the report, and they blessed God and spoke no more about going to war against them to destroy the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.
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Judges 2:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
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Judges 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.
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Judges 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
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Judges 20:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
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Judges 20:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
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Judges 20:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
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Judges 20:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
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Ruth 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.”
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1 Samuel 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
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1 Samuel 13:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,
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1 Samuel 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then panic struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked, and panic spread from God.
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1 Samuel 23:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.
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1 Samuel 26:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can extend a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”
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1 Samuel 26:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?
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2 Samuel 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
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2 Samuel 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 14:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.”
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2 Samuel 20:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
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2 Samuel 20:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!
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