Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H7844
שְׁחַת
shechathshekh-ath'
to corrupt
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉchath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7844is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7844
{to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)}
The King James renders it: corrupt, fault.
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
shechath is rendered "to corrupt". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:9If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”
Daniel 2:9וּשְׁחִיתָה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and corruption2
- and corrupt1
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- וּשְׁחִיתָה֙1
- וּשְׁחִיתָ֜ה1
- וּשְׁחִיתָ֔ה1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive (qal passive), participle · feminine singular3AC/VQrfsa
Daniel
three uses
If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”
- וּשְׁחִיתָה֙ushechitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive (qal passive), participle · feminine singulartagged: and corrupt
Thus the administrators and satraps sought a charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no charge or corruption, because he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.
- וּשְׁחִיתָ֜הushechitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive (qal passive), participle · feminine singulartagged: and corruption
- וּשְׁחִיתָ֔הushechitahconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive (qal passive), participle · feminine singulartagged: and corruption
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.