Hebrew verb · H6789
צָמַת
tsamathtsaw-math'
to destroy
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsâmath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6789is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6789
to extirpate (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: consume, cut off, destroy, vanish.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tsamath is rendered "to destroy". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 22:41You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
2 Samuel 22:41וָאַצְמִיתֵֽם׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's fifteen uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he will destroy them2
- I will destroy2
- and I destroyed them1
- destroy me1
- destroy them1
- I destroyed them1
- I have been destroyed1
- it has destroyed me1
- they are silenced1
- they destroyed1
- they have destroyed me1
- you destroy1
and 1 more, 15 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַ֫צְמִ֥ית1
- אַצְמִ֥ית1
- אַצְמִיתֵֽם׃1
- הַצְמִיתֵֽם׃1
- הִ֝צְמַ֗תָּה1
- וָאַצְמִיתֵֽם׃1
- יַצְמִיתֵ֑ם1
- יַ֝צְמִיתֵ֗ם1
- מַ֭צְמִיתַי1
- נִצְמָ֑תוּ1
- נִ֭צְמַתִּי1
- צָֽמְת֤וּ1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVhi1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HVhi3ms/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vhw1cs/Sp3mp1Hc/Vhw1cs/Sp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi1cs/Sp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhp2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhrmpc/Sp1bs
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhv2ms/Sp3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVNp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3cp/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3fs/Sp1bs
2 Samuel
one use
You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
- וָאַצְמִיתֵֽם׃vaatzmitemHc/Vhw1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I destroyed them
Job
two uses
but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
- נִצְמָ֑תוּnitzmatuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are silenced
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
- נִ֭צְמַתִּיnitzmativerb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have been destroyed
Psalms
eleven uses
You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
- אַצְמִיתֵֽם׃ʾatzmitemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I destroyed them
He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
- הַצְמִיתֵֽם׃hatzmitemverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: destroy them
Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
- מַ֭צְמִיתַיmatzmitaiverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: destroy me
Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
- הִ֝צְמַ֗תָּהhitzmatahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you destroy
Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
- צִמְּתוּתֻֽנִי׃tzimetutuniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have destroyed me
He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.
- יַצְמִיתֵ֑םyatzmitemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he will destroy them
- יַ֝צְמִיתֵ֗םyatzmitemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he will destroy them
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
- אַ֫צְמִ֥יתʾatzmitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will destroy
Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
- אַצְמִ֥יתʾatzmitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will destroy
My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.
- צִמְּתַ֥תְנִיtzimetatniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it has destroyed me
And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.
- תַּצְמִ֪יתtatzmitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will destroy
Lamentations
one use
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- צָֽמְת֤וּtzametuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they destroyed
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.