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Hebrew verb · H8045

שָׁמַד

shamadshaw-mad'

to destroy

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

Concordance spelling: shâmad

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8045is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 25 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 85
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8045

to desolate

The King James renders it: destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, [idiom] utterly.

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

shamad is rendered "to destroy". It stands 90 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-five books.

  • Twenty-nine of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:30Then 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.”
  • The Greek text spells it eighty-five different ways.

The first use

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.”

Genesis 34:30וְנִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖י

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

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • to destroy8
  • being destroyed you5
  • and I will destroy4
  • and to destroy4
  • to annihilate4
  • and it will be destroyed3
  • he had destroyed3
  • he will destroy3
  • and he destroyed2
  • and he will destroy you2
  • and I destroyed them2
  • has destroyed he2

and 42 more, 90 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.

שָׁמַעshamato hear: hearUses1,159
שָׁמַרshamarto keep: obeyUses468
שָׁמַיִםshamayimheavenUses421
שָׁמֵםshamembe desolate: destroyedUses86
שָׁמַיִןshamayinheavenUses38
שָׁמִירshamirthornUses11
שָׁמֵןshamenrichUses10
שָׁמַטshamatto releaseUses9
שָׁמֵםshamemdevastatedUses6
שָׁמַןshamanto grow fatUses5

The words it stands beside

All 90, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

85 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

  • לְהַשְׁמִ֥יד3
  • הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃2
  • הִשְׁמִ֣יד2
  • לְהַשְׁמִ֣יד2
  • אַשְׁמִ֖יד1
  • אַשְׁמִ֛יד1
  • אַשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔1
  • הִשָּׁמֵ֖ד1
  • הַשְׁמֵ֔ד1
  • הַשְׁמֵֽד׃1
  • הִשְׁמִד֑וֹ1
  • הִשְׁמִֽדְךָ֖1

and 73 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)12HR/Vhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVhp3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular5HVNcc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)4HC/R/Vhcc
  • Hc/Vhq1cs4Hc/Vhq1cs
  • Hc/VNq3ms3Hc/VNq3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVhi3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HVhp3ms/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp2ms2Hc/Vhq3ms/Sp2ms
  • Hc/Vhw1cs/Sp3mp2Hc/Vhw1cs/Sp3mp
  • Hc/Vhw3ms2Hc/Vhw3ms
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HR/Vhcc/Sp3mp

Genesis

one use
  • 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.”

    Genesis 34:30

    • וְנִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יvenishmadtiHc/VNq1cstagged: and I will be destroyed

Leviticus

one use
  • I 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.

    Leviticus 26:30

    • וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֞יvehishmadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy

Numbers

one use
  • you 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.

    Numbers 33:52

    • תַּשְׁמִֽידוּ׃tashmiduverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will demolish

Deuteronomy

twenty-nine uses
  • You 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.

    Deuteronomy 1:27

    • לְהַשְׁמִידֵֽנוּ׃lehashmidenupreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: to destroy us
  • The 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.)

    Deuteronomy 2:12

    • וַיַּשְׁמִידוּם֙vaiyashmidumHc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they destroyed them
  • They 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,

    Deuteronomy 2:21

    • וַיַּשְׁמִידֵ֤םvaiyashmidemHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he destroyed them
  • just 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.

    Deuteronomy 2:22

    • הִשְׁמִ֤ידhishmidverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he destroyed
  • And 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.)

    Deuteronomy 2:23

    • הִשְׁמִידֻ֖םhishmidumverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they destroyed them
  • Your 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.

    Deuteronomy 4:3

    • הִשְׁמִיד֛וֹhishmidoverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he destroyed him
  • I 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.

    Deuteronomy 4:26

    • הִשָּׁמֵ֖דhishamedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: utterly destroyed
    • תִּשָּׁמֵדֽוּן׃tishamedunverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will be destroyed
  • For 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.

    Deuteronomy 6:15

    • וְהִשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔vehishmidekhaHc/Vhq3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he will destroy you
  • because 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.

    Deuteronomy 7:4

    • וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ֖vehishmidekhaHc/Vhq3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he will destroy you
  • But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

    Deuteronomy 7:23

    • הִשָּׁמְדָֽם׃hishamedamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: are destroyed they
  • He 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.

    Deuteronomy 7:24

    • הִשְׁמִֽדְךָ֖hishmidkhaverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: destroying you
  • But 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.

    Deuteronomy 9:3

    • יַשְׁמִידֵ֛םyashmidemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he will destroy them
  • At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.

    Deuteronomy 9:8

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

    Deuteronomy 9:14

    • וְאַשְׁמִידֵ֔םveashmidemHC/Vhu1cs/Sp3mptagged: so I may destroy them
  • For 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.

    Deuteronomy 9:19

    • לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידlehashmidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
  • The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

    Deuteronomy 9:20

    • לְהַשְׁמִיד֑וֹlehashmidopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to destroy him
  • So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

    Deuteronomy 9:25

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

    Deuteronomy 12:30

    • הִשָּׁמְדָ֣םhishamedamverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: have been destroyed they
  • The 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:20

    • הִשָּֽׁמֶדְךָ֤hishamedkhaverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: being destroyed you
  • The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

    Deuteronomy 28:24

    • הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃hishamedakhverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: being destroyed you
  • All 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:45

    • הִשָּֽׁמְדָ֑ךְhishamedakhverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: being destroyed you
  • you 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:48

    • הִשְׁמִיד֖וֹhishmidoverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has destroyed he
  • They 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:51

    • הִשָּֽׁמְדָךְ֒hishamedokhverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: being destroyed you
  • The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

    Deuteronomy 28:61

    • הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃hishamedakhverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: being destroyed you
  • Just 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:63

    • וּלְהַשְׁמִ֣ידulehashmidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
  • The 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.

    Deuteronomy 31:3

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

    Deuteronomy 31:4

    • הִשְׁמִ֖ידhishmidverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he destroyed
  • The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

    Deuteronomy 33:27

    • הַשְׁמֵֽד׃hashmedverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: destroy

Joshua

six uses
  • This 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.

    Joshua 7:12

    • תַשְׁמִ֛ידוּtashmiduverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will destroy
  • The 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.

    Joshua 9:24

    • וּלְהַשְׁמִ֛ידulehashmidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
  • The 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.

    Joshua 11:14

    • הִשְׁמִדָם֙hishmidamverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: had destroyed they
  • For 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.

    Joshua 11:20

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

    Joshua 23:15

    • הַשְׁמִיד֣וֹhashmidoverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: has destroyed he
  • Later, 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.

    Joshua 24:8

    • וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֖םvaashmidemHc/Vhw1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I destroyed them

Judges

one use
  • Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”

    Judges 21:16

    • נִשְׁמְדָ֥הnishmedahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she is destroyed

1 Samuel

one use
  • So 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.”

    1 Samuel 24:21

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

2 Samuel

five uses
  • 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.”

    2 Samuel 14:7

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

    • יַשְׁמִ֖ידוּyashmiduverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will destroy
  • For 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.’

    2 Samuel 14:16

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

    2 Samuel 21:5

    • נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּnishmadnuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we were destroyed
  • I pursued my enemies and destroyed them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

    2 Samuel 22:38

    • וָאַשְׁמִידֵ֑םvaashmidemHc/Vhw1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I destroyed them

1 Kings

three uses
  • And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.

    1 Kings 13:34

    • וּלְהַשְׁמִ֔ידulehashmidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
  • As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

    1 Kings 15:29

    • הִשְׁמִד֑וֹhishmidoverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had destroyed it
  • So Zimri destroyed the entire household of Baasha, according to the word that the LORD had spoken against Baasha through Jehu the prophet.

    1 Kings 16:12

    • וַיַּשְׁמֵ֣דvaiyashmedHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he destroyed

2 Kings

three uses
  • When 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.

    2 Kings 10:17

    • הִשְׁמִיד֑וֹhishmidoverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had destroyed him
  • Thus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel,

    2 Kings 10:28

    • וַיַּשְׁמֵ֥דvaiyashmedHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he destroyed
  • But 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.

    2 Kings 21:9

    • הִשְׁמִ֣ידhishmidverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had destroyed

1 Chronicles

one use
  • They were mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of their families. But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

    1 Chronicles 5:25

    • הִשְׁמִ֥ידhishmidverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had destroyed

2 Chronicles

three uses
  • And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.

    2 Chronicles 20:10

    • הִשְׁמִידֽוּם׃hishmidumverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they destroyed them
  • The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had made an end to the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

    2 Chronicles 20:23

    • וּלְהַשְׁמִ֑ידulehashmidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to destroy
  • So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

    2 Chronicles 33:9

    • הִשְׁמִ֣ידhishmidverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had destroyed

Esther

five uses
  • And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.

    Esther 3:6

    • לְהַשְׁמִ֧ידlehashmidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to annihilate
  • And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

    Esther 3:13

    • לְהַשְׁמִ֡ידlehashmidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to annihilate
  • Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.

    Esther 4:8

    • לְהַשְׁמִידָם֙lehashmidampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to annihilate them
  • For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

    Esther 7:4

    • לְהַשְׁמִ֖ידlehashmidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to annihilate
  • By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

    Esther 8:11

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

Psalms

six uses
  • But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.

    Psalms 37:38

    • נִשְׁמְד֣וּnishmeduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be destroyed
  • who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

    Psalms 83:10

    • נִשְׁמְד֥וּnishmeduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were destroyed
  • that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

    Psalms 92:7

    • לְהִשָּֽׁמְדָ֥םlehishamedampreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to be destroyed they
  • 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

    • לְֽהַשְׁמִ֫ידָ֥םlehashmidampreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to destroy them
  • They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

    Psalms 106:34

    • הִ֭שְׁמִידוּhishmiduverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they destroyed
  • The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

    Psalms 145:20

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

Proverbs

one use
  • The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

    Proverbs 14:11

    • יִשָּׁמֵ֑דyishamedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be destroyed

Isaiah

six uses
  • But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

    Isaiah 10:7

    • לְהַשְׁמִ֣ידlehashmidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
  • Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

    Isaiah 13:9

    • יַשְׁמִ֥ידyashmidverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will destroy
  • “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

    Isaiah 14:23

    • הַשְׁמֵ֔דhashmedverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: destruction
  • The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

    Isaiah 23:11

    • לַשְׁמִ֖דlashmidpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to destroy
  • The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.

    Isaiah 26:14

    • וַתַּשְׁמִידֵ֔םvatashmidemHc/Vhw2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you have destroyed them
  • Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”

    Isaiah 48:19

    • יִשָּׁמֵ֛דyishamedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be destroyed

Jeremiah

two uses
  • 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

    • וְנִשְׁמַ֣דvenishmadHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be destroyed
  • Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.

    Jeremiah 48:42

    • וְנִשְׁמַ֥דvenishmadHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be destroyed

Lamentations

one use
  • You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

    Lamentations 3:66

    • וְתַשְׁמִידֵ֔םvetashmidemHC/Vhu2ms/Sp3mptagged: and you will destroy them

Ezekiel

four uses
  • But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

    Ezekiel 14:9

    • וְהִ֨שְׁמַדְתִּ֔יוvehishmadtivHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will destroy him
  • therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’

    Ezekiel 25:7

    • אַשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔ʾashmidekhaverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will destroy you
  • 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

    • וְנִשְׁמַ֖דvenishmadHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be destroyed
  • I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’

    Ezekiel 34:16

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

Daniel

one use
  • But news from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will go out with great fury to destroy many and devote them to destruction.

    Daniel 11:44

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

Hosea

one use
  • The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

    Hosea 10:8

    • וְנִשְׁמְד֞וּvenishmeduHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be destroyed

Amos

five uses
  • Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

    Amos 2:9

    • הִשְׁמַ֤דְתִּיhishmadtiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I destroyed
    • וָאַשְׁמִ֤ידvaashmidHc/Vhw1cstagged: and I destroyed
  • Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.

    Amos 9:8

    • וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֣יvehishmadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy
    • הַשְׁמֵ֥ידhashmeidverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to be destroying
    • אַשְׁמִ֛ידʾashmidverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will destroy

Micah

one use
  • I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.

    Micah 5:14

    • וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֖יvehishmadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy

Haggai

one use
  • I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

    Haggai 2:22

    • וְהִ֨שְׁמַדְתִּ֔יvehishmadtiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will destroy

Zechariah

one use
  • So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

    Zechariah 12:9

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

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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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