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Hebrew verb · H7703

שָׁדַד

shadadshaw-dad'

to ruin

57 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shâdad

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7703is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 47
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7703

properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage

The King James renders it: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), [idiom] utterly, (lay) waste.

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

shadad is rendered "to ruin". It stands 57 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Twenty-six of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 5:27At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-seven different ways.

The first use

At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.

Judges 5:27שָׁדֽוּד׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-six of the word's fifty-seven uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • it has been devastated8
  • a destroyer5
  • it will be devastated4
  • destroying3
  • it is devastated3
  • destroyed2
  • destroyer2
  • destroyers2
  • of it was devastated2
  • they have been devastated2
  • we are devastated2
  • about to destroy1

and 21 more, 57 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.

שָׁדַףshadaphto scorchUses3

All 57, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

47 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

  • שֹׁדֵ֤ד3
  • שֻׁדַּ֖ד3
  • שֹׁדֵ֥ד2
  • שֻׁדַּ֥ד2
  • שֻׁדַּ֤ד2
  • שֻׁדַּ֣ד2
  • שֻׁדְּדָ֖ה2
  • שׁוֹדֵ֔ד2
  • הַשֹּׁדֵ֖ד1
  • הַשְּׁד֫וּדָ֥ה1
  • הַשּׁוֹדְדִ֖ים1
  • וְהַשּׁוֹדֵ֣ד׀1

and 35 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular12HVqrmsa
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular11HVPp3ms
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular5HVPp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular3HVqsmsa
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural2HVPp1cp
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVPp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi3ms/Sp3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2HVqrmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Td/Vqrmsa
  • Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Vqv2mp
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc

Judges

one use
  • At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.

    Judges 5:27

    • שָׁדֽוּד׃shadudverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: destroyed

Job

two uses
  • The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

    Job 12:6

    • לְשֹׁ֥דְדִ֗יםleshodedimpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: of destroyers
  • Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

    Job 15:21

    • שׁוֹדֵ֥דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a destroyer

Psalms

two uses
  • from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

    Psalms 17:9

    • שַׁדּ֑וּנִיshaduniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have assailed me
  • O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

    Psalms 137:8

    • הַשְּׁד֫וּדָ֥הhashedudahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: that is about to be destroyed

Proverbs

three uses
  • The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.

    Proverbs 11:3

    • יְשָׁדֵּֽם׃yeshademverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it destroys them
  • He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

    Proverbs 19:26

    • מְֽשַׁדֶּד־meshaded-verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: assaults
  • Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

    Proverbs 24:15

    • תְּשַׁדֵּ֥דteshadedverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you devastate

Isaiah

eleven uses
  • This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

    Isaiah 15:1

    • שֻׁדַּ֨דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: of it was devastated
    • שֻׁדַּ֥דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: of it was devastated
  • Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,

    Isaiah 16:4

    • שׁוֹדֵ֑דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: destroyer
  • A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

    Isaiah 21:2

    • וְהַשּׁוֹדֵ֣ד׀vehashodedconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the destroyer
    • שׁוֹדֵ֔דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: destroying
  • This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

    Isaiah 23:1

    • שֻׁדַּ֤דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been devastated
  • Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!

    Isaiah 23:14

    • שֻׁדַּ֖דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been devastated
  • Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

    Isaiah 33:1

    • שׁוֹדֵ֗דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: destroyer
    • שָׁד֔וּדshadudverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: destroyed
    • שׁוֹדֵד֙shodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: destroying
    • תּוּשַּׁ֔דtushadverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will be destroyed

Jeremiah

twenty-six uses
  • Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

    Jeremiah 4:13

    • שֻׁדָּֽדְנוּ׃shudadenuverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we are devastated
  • Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

    Jeremiah 4:20

    • שֻׁדְּדָ֖הshudedahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been devastated
    • שֻׁדְּד֣וּshudeduverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been devastated
  • And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

    Jeremiah 4:30

    • שָׁד֜וּדshadudverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: O devastated
  • Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.

    Jeremiah 5:6

    • יְשָׁדְדֵ֔םyeshadedemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it will devastate them
  • O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

    Jeremiah 6:26

    • הַשֹּׁדֵ֖דhashodedthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the destroyer
  • For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

    Jeremiah 9:19

    • שֻׁדָּ֑דְנוּshudadenuverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have been devastated
  • My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

    Jeremiah 10:20

    • שֻׁדָּ֔דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been devastated
  • Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

    Jeremiah 12:12

    • שֹֽׁדְדִ֔יםshodedimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: destroyers
  • I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

    Jeremiah 15:8

    • שֹׁדֵ֣דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a destroyer
  • Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

    Jeremiah 25:36

    • שֹׁדֵ֥דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: destroying
  • For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.

    Jeremiah 47:4

    • לִשְׁד֣וֹדlishdodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to devastate
    • שֹׁדֵ֤דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to devastate
  • Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.

    Jeremiah 48:1

    • שֻׁדָּ֔דָהshudadahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be devastated
  • The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.

    Jeremiah 48:8

    • שֹׁדֵ֜דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a destroyer
  • Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

    Jeremiah 48:15

    • שֻׁדַּ֤דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be devastated
  • Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

    Jeremiah 48:18

    • שֹׁדֵ֤דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: destroyer of
  • Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

    Jeremiah 48:20

    • שֻׁדַּ֖דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been devastated
  • I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

    Jeremiah 48:32

    • שֹׁדֵ֥דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a destroyer
  • Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.

    Jeremiah 49:3

    • שֻׁדְּדָה־shudedah-verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been devastated
  • But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.

    Jeremiah 49:10

    • שֻׁדַּ֥דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be devastated
  • Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!

    Jeremiah 49:28

    • וְשָׁדְד֖וּveshadeduconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and devastate
  • Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 51:48

    • הַשּׁוֹדְדִ֖יםhashodimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the destroyers
  • Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 51:53

    • שֹׁדְדִ֛יםshodedimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: destroyers
  • For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.

    Jeremiah 51:55

    • שֹׁדֵ֤דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to destroy
  • For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.

    Jeremiah 51:56

    • שׁוֹדֵ֔דshodedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a destroyer

Ezekiel

one use
  • I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.

    Ezekiel 32:12

    • וְשָֽׁדְדוּ֙veshadeduHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will devastate

Hosea

two uses
  • Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

    Hosea 10:2

    • יְשֹׁדֵ֖דyeshodedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will destroy
  • the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

    Hosea 10:14

    • יוּשַּׁ֔דyushadverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be devastated

Joel

two uses
  • The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

    Joel 1:10

    • שֻׁדַּ֣דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is devastated
    • שֻׁדַּ֣דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is devastated

Obadiah

one use
  • “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

    Obadiah 1:5

    • שׁ֣וֹדְדֵיshodeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: destroyers of

Micah

two uses
  • In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”

    Micah 2:4

    • שָׁד֣וֹדshadodverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: utterly devastate
    • נְשַׁדֻּ֔נוּneshadunuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we are devastated

Nahum

one use
  • Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

    Nahum 3:7

    • שָׁדְּדָ֣הshadedahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is devastated

Zechariah

three uses
  • Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!

    Zechariah 11:2

    • שֻׁדָּ֑דוּshudaduverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been devastated
  • Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.

    Zechariah 11:3

    • שֻׁדְּדָ֖הshudedahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been devastated
    • שֻׁדַּ֖דshudadverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been devastated

The letters

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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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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