שָׁמַד (sha.mad) means “to destroy” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: shaw-mad' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שָׁמַד · sha.mad · to destroy
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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a primitive root; to desolate
KJV glosses: destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, [idiom] utterly.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to destroy | 6 |
| will be destroyed | 6 |
| you are destroyed | 5 |
| be destroyed | 3 |
| destroyed | 3 |
| had destroyed | 3 |
| and destroy | 2 |
| and destroyed them | 2 |
| he destroyed | 2 |
| he has destroyed | 2 |
| i will destroy | 2 |
| to destruction | 2 |
| and demolish | 1 |
| and destroy him | 1 |
| and destruction | 1 |
| and exterminate them | 1 |
| and he will wipe you | 1 |
| and i will destroy | 1 |
| and to destroy | 1 |
| and wipe out | 1 |
| being annihilated | 1 |
| but destroyed them all | 1 |
| demolish | 1 |
| destroy | 1 |
| destroy him | 1 |
| destroy them | 1 |
| destroy you | 1 |
| destroyed them | 1 |
| enough to destroy you | 1 |
| eradicated | 1 |
| for the destruction of the jews | 1 |
| have been destroyed | 1 |
| he had destroyed them | 1 |
| he will destroy | 1 |
| he will destroy them | 1 |
| he would destroy | 1 |
| he would destroy them | 1 |
| i will destroy you | 1 |
| of destruction | 1 |
| or eliminated | 1 |
| or wipe out | 1 |
| so that i may destroy them | 1 |
| then we will cut off | 1 |
| they are destroyed | 1 |
| they destroyed the horites | 1 |
| they had completely destroyed them | 1 |
| they have been destroyed | 1 |
| to be annihilated | 1 |
| to destroy him | 1 |
| to exterminate us | 1 |
| utterly destroy | 1 |
| were destroyed by | 1 |
| when i destroyed them | 1 |
| who destroyed | 1 |
| who perished | 1 |
| who would cut off | 1 |
| will be utterly destroyed | 1 |
| will destroy | 1 |
| with the order to destroy | 1 |
| yet i destroyed | 1 |
| you remove | 1 |
| you will annihilate them | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to destroy | 9 |
| destroyed | 5 |
| destroy | 4 |
| shall be destroyed | 4 |
| and i will destroy | 3 |
| and destroy | 2 |
| and destroyed | 2 |
| and to destroy | 2 |
| until he have destroyed | 2 |
| until thou be destroyed | 2 |
| upon thee until thou be destroyed | 2 |
| against thee and destroy | 1 |
| against you and destroy | 1 |
| against you to destroy | 1 |
| and he shall destroy | 1 |
| and i destroyed | 1 |
| and i shall be destroyed | 1 |
| and quite pluck down | 1 |
| and we will destroy | 1 |
| are destroyed | 1 |
| be destroyed | 1 |
| but i will destroy | 1 |
| but that he might destroy | 1 |
| from them and destroyed | 1 |
| had destroyed | 1 |
| hath destroyed | 1 |
| he shall destroy | 1 |
| he will destroy | 1 |
| he would destroy | 1 |
| i will destroy | 1 |
| lest they destroy | 1 |
| me and that thou wilt not destroy | 1 |
| nor destroyed | 1 |
| of destruction | 1 |
| of thee so will i destroy | 1 |
| of them whom he destroyed | 1 |
| perished | 1 |
| shall be overthrown | 1 |
| that he would destroy | 1 |
| that i may destroy | 1 |
| that i will not utterly | 1 |
| that they be destroyed | 1 |
| that they shall be destroyed | 1 |
| thee till thou be destroyed | 1 |
| thee until thou have destroyed | 1 |
| them when they had destroyed | 1 |
| thereof shall be destroyed | 1 |
| they did not destroy | 1 |
| till he had destroyed | 1 |
| to be destroyed | 1 |
| to have destroyed | 1 |
| until he had destroyed | 1 |
| until they be destroyed | 1 |
| until they had destroyed | 1 |
| upon him and will destroy | 1 |
| upon it but shall utterly | 1 |
| we should be destroyed | 1 |
| when he destroyed | 1 |
| will he destroy | 1 |
| with you to have destroyed | 1 |
| ye destroy | 1 |
| yet destroyed | 1 |
| yet i destroyed | 1 |
| you and to bring you to nought | 1 |
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Then 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.”
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordyou 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.
Read word by wordYou 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.)
Read word by wordThey 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,
Read word by wordjust 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.)
Read word by wordYour 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.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordbecause 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.
Read word by wordBut the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordAt Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
Read word by wordLeave 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.”
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordThe LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
Read word by wordSo I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
Read word by wordbe 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.”
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordThe LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
Read word by wordAll 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.
Read word by wordyou 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.
Read word by wordThey 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.
Read word by wordThe LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
Read word by wordJust 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordThe eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
Read word by wordThis 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordLater, 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.
Read word by wordThen the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”
Read word by wordSo 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.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.22
Now 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.”
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordFor 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.’
Read word by wordAnd 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,
Read word by wordI pursued my enemies and destroyed them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
Read word by wordAnd this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
Read word by wordAs 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,
Read word by wordSo Zimri destroyed the entire household of Baasha, according to the word that the LORD had spoken against Baasha through Jehu the prophet.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordThus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel,
Read word by wordBut 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.
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