שָׁמַד shamad

Hebrew word for “to destroy” · Strong’s H8045 · used 90 times in 86 verses

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Meaning

1) to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shamad in context, with how often each is used:

• will destroy 18
• destroy 17
• destroyed 17
• will be destroyed 8
• being destroyed 5
• had destroyed 5
• annihilate 5
• destroyed they 2
• has destroyed he 2
• will demolish 1
• utterly 1
• will be destroyed ! 1

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 28 (7), Deuteronomy 9 (6), Deuteronomy 2 (4), Deuteronomy 7 (3), 2 Samuel 14 (3), Deuteronomy 4 (2), Deuteronomy 31 (2), Joshua 11 (2), 2 Kings 10 (2), 2 Chronicles 20 (2)

Forms

• להשׁמיד 11
• השׁמיד 6
• השׁמדך 6
• השׁמידו 5
• והשׁמדתי 4
• ולהשׁמיד 4
• השׁמד 3
• השׁמדם 3
• ואשׁמידם 3
• ישׁמיד 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shamad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אָבַד avad “to perish” 14
• עַד ad “till” 17
• יָרַשׁ yarash “to possess” 10
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 10
• אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 8
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 9
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 10
• מַהֵר maher “quickly” 4
• כָּרַת karat “to cut” 6
• שָׁאַר shaar “to remain” 5
• שֵׂעִיר seir “Seir” 4
• אֱמֹרִי emori “Amorite” 4

Key verses

The verses using shamad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I…
• Leviticus 26:30 — And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
• Deuteronomy 4:26 — I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye…
• Deuteronomy 28:48 — Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all and he shall…
• Deuteronomy 33:27 — The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
• Psalms 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Psalms 106:23 — Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
• Ezekiel 14:9 — And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy…
• Ezekiel 34:16 — I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:…
• Amos 2:9 — Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above,…
• Amos 9:8 — Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the…
• Haggai 2:22 — And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.