שָׁחַת

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

Genesis 6:11

• וַתִּשָּׁחֵ֥תvatishachetHc/VNw3fstagged: and it was corrupt

And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

Genesis 6:12

• נִשְׁחָ֑תָהnishchatahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was corrupt
• הִשְׁחִ֧יתhishchitverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had corrupted

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.

Genesis 6:13

• מַשְׁחִיתָ֖םmashchitamverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: about to destroy them

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.

Genesis 6:17

• לְשַׁחֵ֣תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

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.”

Genesis 9:11

• לְשַׁחֵ֥תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

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.

Genesis 9:15

• לְשַׁחֵ֖תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

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.)

Genesis 13:10

• שַׁחֵ֣תshachetverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: destroyed

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.”

Genesis 18:28

• הֲתַשְׁחִ֥יתhatashchitquestion particle + verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will you destroy
• אַשְׁחִ֔יתʾashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will destroy

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.”

Genesis 18:31

• אַשְׁחִ֔יתʾashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will destroy

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.”

Genesis 18:32

• אַשְׁחִ֔יתʾashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will destroy

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.”

Genesis 19:13

• מַשְׁחִתִ֣יםmashchitimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: about to destroy
• לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃leshachatahpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to destroy it

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.

Genesis 19:14

• מַשְׁחִ֥יתmashchitverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to destroy

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.

Genesis 19:29

• בְּשַׁחֵ֤תbeshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when destroyed

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.

Genesis 38:9

• וְשִׁחֵ֣תveshichetHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he spoiled

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.

Exodus 8:24

• תִּשָּׁחֵ֥תtishachetverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was ruined

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.

Exodus 12:23

• הַמַּשְׁחִ֔יתhamashchitthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the destroyer

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.

Exodus 21:26

• וְשִֽׁחֲתָ֑הּveshichatahHc/Vpq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he will destroy it

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.

Exodus 32:7

• שִׁחֵ֣תshichetverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has behaved corruptly

You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

Leviticus 19:27

• תַשְׁחִ֔יתtashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will trim

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.”

Numbers 32:15

• וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖םveshichatemHc/Vpq2mptagged: and you will destroy

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,

Deuteronomy 4:16

• תַּשְׁחִת֔וּןtashchitunverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you should act corruptly

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—

Deuteronomy 4:25

• וְהִשְׁחַתֶּ֗םvehishchatemHc/Vhq2mptagged: and you will act corruptly

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.

Deuteronomy 4:31

• יַשְׁחִיתֶ֑ךָyashchitekhaverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will destroy you

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.”

Deuteronomy 9:12

• שִׁחֵ֣תshichetverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has acted corruptly

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.

Deuteronomy 9:26

• תַּשְׁחֵ֤תtashchetverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you destroy

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.

Deuteronomy 10:10

• הַשְׁחִיתֶֽךָ׃hashchitekhaverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to destroy you

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?

Deuteronomy 20:19

• תַשְׁחִ֤יתtashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will destroy

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.

Deuteronomy 20:20

• תַשְׁחִ֖יתtashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will destroy

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.”

Deuteronomy 31:29

• הַשְׁחֵ֣תhashchetverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to act corruptly
• תַּשְׁחִת֔וּןtashchitunverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will act corruptly

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

Deuteronomy 32:5

• שִׁחֵ֥תshichetverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has acted corruptly

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.

Joshua 22:33

• לְשַׁחֵת֙leshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

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.

Judges 2:19

• וְהִשְׁחִ֣יתוּvehishchituHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they acted corruptly

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.

Judges 6:4

• וַיַּשְׁחִ֙יתוּ֙vaiyashchituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they destroyed

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.

Judges 6:5

• לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃leshachatahpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to destroy it

And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

Judges 20:21

• וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּvaiyashchituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they destroyed

That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

Judges 20:25

• וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩vaiyashchituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they destroyed

The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

Judges 20:35

• וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩vaiyashchituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they destroyed

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.

Judges 20:42

• מַשְׁחִיתִ֥יםmashchitimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: destroying

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.”

Ruth 4:6

• אַשְׁחִ֖יתʾashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I should ruin

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.

1 Samuel 6:5

• הַמַּשְׁחִיתִם֙hamashchitimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: which are ruining

And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,

1 Samuel 13:17

• הַמַּשְׁחִ֛יתhamashchitthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the destroyer

Then terror 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.

1 Samuel 14:15

• וְהַמַּשְׁחִ֔יתvehamashchitconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the destroyer

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.

1 Samuel 23:10

• לְשַׁחֵ֥תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:9

• תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֑הוּtashchitehuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you destroy him

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?

1 Samuel 26:15

• לְהַשְׁחִ֖יתlehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

2 Samuel 1:14

• לְשַׁחֵ֖תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

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.

2 Samuel 11:1

• וַיַּשְׁחִ֙תוּ֙vaiyashchituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they destroyed

“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.”

2 Samuel 14:11

• לְשַׁחֵ֔תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

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,

2 Samuel 20:15

• מַשְׁחִיתִ֖םmashchitimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: about to destroy

“Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!

2 Samuel 20:20

• אַשְׁחִֽית׃ʾashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will destroy

But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:16

• לְשַׁחֲתָהּ֒leshachatahpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to destroy it
• הַמַּשְׁחִ֤יתhamashchitthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the destroyer

Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

2 Kings 8:19

• לְהַשְׁחִ֣יתlehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.

2 Kings 13:23

• הַשְׁחִיתָ֔םhashchitamverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to destroy them

So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

2 Kings 18:25

• לְהַשְׁחִת֑וֹlehashchitopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to destroy it
• וְהַשְׁחִיתָֽהּ׃vehashchitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and destroy it

Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

2 Kings 19:12

• שִׁחֲת֣וּshichatuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they destroyed

In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.

1 Chronicles 20:1

• וַיַּשְׁחֵ֣ת׀vaiyashchetHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he destroyed

between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

1 Chronicles 21:12

• מַשְׁחִ֖יתmashchitverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: destroying

Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15

• לְהַשְׁחִיתָהּ֒lehashchitahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to destroy it
• וּכְהַשְׁחִ֗יתukhehashchitconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and just as was destroying
• הַמַּשְׁחִית֙hamashchitthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the destroying

When the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.

2 Chronicles 12:7

• אַשְׁחִיתֵ֑םʾashchitemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will destroy them

Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.

2 Chronicles 12:12

• לְהַשְׁחִ֖יתlehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

2 Chronicles 21:7

• לְהַשְׁחִית֙lehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.

2 Chronicles 24:23

• וַיַּשְׁחִ֛יתוּvaiyashchituHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they destroyed

While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”

2 Chronicles 25:16

• לְהַשְׁחִיתֶ֔ךָlehashchitekhapreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to destroy you

But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 26:16

• לְהַשְׁחִ֔יתlehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to behaved corruptly

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.

2 Chronicles 27:2

• מַשְׁחִיתִֽים׃mashchitimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: behaving corruptly

They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to buy dressed stone, as well as timbers for couplings and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to deteriorate.

2 Chronicles 34:11

• הִשְׁחִ֖יתוּhishchituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had ruined

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty. God told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”

2 Chronicles 35:21

• יַשְׁחִיתֶֽךָ׃yashchitekhaverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he destroy you

Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

2 Chronicles 36:19

• לְהַשְׁחִֽית׃ סlehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

Psalms 14:1

• הִֽשְׁחִ֗יתוּhishchituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they act corruptly

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.

Psalms 53:1

• הִֽ֝שְׁחִ֗יתוּhishchituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they act corruptly

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalms 78:38

• יַ֫שְׁחִ֥יתyashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he destroyed

He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Psalms 78:45

• וַתַּשְׁחִיתֵֽם׃vatashchitemHc/Vhw3fs/Sp3mptagged: and it ruined them

So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Psalms 106:23

• מֵֽהַשְׁחִֽית׃mehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from destroying

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 6:32

• מַֽשְׁחִ֥יתmashchitverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: destroys

With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.

Proverbs 11:9

• יַשְׁחִ֣תyashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he ruins

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

Proverbs 23:8

• וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּveshichataHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will spoil

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

Proverbs 25:26

• מָשְׁחָ֑תmashechatverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: ruined

He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

Proverbs 28:24

• מַשְׁחִֽית׃mashchitverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: destruction

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Isaiah 1:4

• מַשְׁחִיתִ֑יםmashchitimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: behave corruptly

They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

Isaiah 11:9

• יַשְׁחִ֖יתוּyashchituverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will destroy

You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

Isaiah 14:20

• שִׁחַ֖תָּshichataverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have ruined

So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

Isaiah 36:10

• לְהַשְׁחִיתָ֑הּlehashchitahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to destroy it
• וְהַשְׁחִיתָֽהּ׃vehashchitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and destroy it

Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

Isaiah 37:12

• הִשְׁחִ֣יתוּhishchituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they destroyed

But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 51:13

• לְהַשְׁחִ֑יתlehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.

Isaiah 54:16

• מַשְׁחִ֖יתmashchitnoun · masculine singulartagged: a destroyer

This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.

Isaiah 65:8

• תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֔הוּtashchitehuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you destroy it
• הַֽשְׁחִ֥יתhashchitverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

Isaiah 65:25

• יַשְׁחִ֛יתוּyashchituverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will destroy

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Jeremiah 2:30

• מַשְׁחִֽית׃mashchitverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: destroying

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

Jeremiah 4:7

• וּמַשְׁחִ֣יתumashchitconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a destroyer of

Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.

Jeremiah 5:10

• וְשַׁחֵ֔תוּveshachetuconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and destroy

Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

Jeremiah 6:5

• וְנַשְׁחִ֖יתָהvenashchitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and let us destroy

All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.

Jeremiah 6:28

• מַשְׁחִיתִ֖יםmashchitimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: destroyers

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 11:19

• נַשְׁחִ֨יתָהnashchitahverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us destroy

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

Jeremiah 12:10

• שִֽׁחֲת֣וּshichatuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have ruined

So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.

Jeremiah 13:7

• נִשְׁחַ֣תnishchatverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was ruined

“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 13:9

• אַשְׁחִ֞יתʾashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will ruin

I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”

Jeremiah 13:14

• מֵהַשְׁחִיתָֽם׃ סmehashchitampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from destroying them

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 15:3

• וּלְהַשְׁחִֽית׃ulehashchitconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy

You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

Jeremiah 15:6

• וָֽאַשְׁחִיתֵ֔ךְvaashchitekhHc/Vhw1cs/Sp2fstagged: and I have destroyed you

But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

Jeremiah 18:4

• וְנִשְׁחַ֣תvenishchatHc/VNq3mstagged: and it was spoiled

I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.

Jeremiah 22:7

• מַשְׁחִתִ֖יםmashchitimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: destroyers

You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’

Jeremiah 36:29

• וְהִשְׁחִית֙vehishchitHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will destroy

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

• שִׁחֵ֖תshichetverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will ruin

If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

Jeremiah 49:9

• הִשְׁחִ֥יתוּhishchituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they destroyed

This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.

Jeremiah 51:1

• מַשְׁחִֽית׃mashchitverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: a destroyer

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.

Jeremiah 51:11

• לְהַשְׁחִיתָ֑הּlehashchitahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to destroy it

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

Jeremiah 51:20

• וְהִשְׁחַתִּ֥יvehishchatiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I destroy

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.

Jeremiah 51:25

• הַמַּשְׁחִ֖יתhamashchitthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: who destroys

The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

Lamentations 2:5

• שִׁחֵ֖תshichetverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has ruined

He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

Lamentations 2:6

• שִׁחֵ֖תshichetverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has ruined

The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

Lamentations 2:8

• לְהַשְׁחִית֙lehashchitpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

Ezekiel 5:16

• לְשַֽׁחֶתְכֶ֑םleshachetkhempreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: to destroy you

While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”

Ezekiel 9:8

• הֲמַשְׁחִ֣יתhamashchitquestion particle + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: ¿ about to destroy

And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

Ezekiel 16:47

• וַתַּשְׁחִ֥תִיvatashchitiHc/Vhw2fstagged: and you behaved corruptly

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:17

• מִֽשַּׁחֲתָ֑םmishachatampreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from destroying them

Then you will know, O house of Israel, that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for the sake of My name and not according to your wicked ways and corrupt acts, declares the Lord GOD.”

Ezekiel 20:44

• הַנִּשְׁחָתוֹת֙hanishchatotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the corrupt

I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

Ezekiel 22:30

• שַׁחֲתָ֑הּshachatahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to destroy it

Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

Ezekiel 23:11

• וַתַּשְׁחֵ֥תvatashchetHc/Vhw3fstagged: and she acted corruptly

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

Ezekiel 26:4

• וְשִׁחֲת֞וּveshichatuHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will destroy

Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.

Ezekiel 28:17

• שִׁחַ֥תָּshichataverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you perverted

He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 30:11

• לְשַׁחֵ֣תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when He came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar. I fell facedown,

Ezekiel 43:3

• לְשַׁחֵ֣תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.

Daniel 8:24

• יַשְׁחִ֖יתyashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will destroy
• וְהִשְׁחִ֥יתvehishchitHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will destroy

Through his craft and by his hand, he will cause deceit to prosper, and in his own mind he will make himself great. In a time of peace he will destroy many, and he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken off, but not by human hands.

Daniel 8:25

• יַשְׁחִ֣יתyashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will destroy

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

Daniel 9:26

• יַ֠שְׁחִיתyashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will destroy

He will resolve to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and will reach an agreement with the king of the South. He will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plan will not succeed or help him.

Daniel 11:17

• לְהַשְׁחִיתָ֔הּlehashchitahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to destroy it

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

Hosea 9:9

• שִׁחֵ֖תוּshichetuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have dealt corruptly

I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man— the Holy One among you— and I will not come in wrath.

Hosea 11:9

• לְשַׁחֵ֣תleshachetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy

You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.

Hosea 13:9

• שִֽׁחֶתְךָ֥shichetkhaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it will destroy you

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

Amos 1:11

• וְשִׁחֵ֣תveshichetHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he spoiled

For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.

Nahum 2:2

• שִׁחֵֽתוּ׃shichetuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have destroyed

I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

Zephaniah 3:7

• הִשְׁחִ֔יתוּhishchituverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they corrupted

“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

Malachi 1:14

• מָשְׁחָ֖תmashechatverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: a blemished

But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 2:8

• שִֽׁחַתֶּם֙shichatemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have corrupted

I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 3:11

• יַשְׁחִ֥תyashchitverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will destroy