שָׁחַת

sha.chat

Hebrew H7843 Verb 146 occurrences in 135 verses
שָׁחַת to ruin

1. to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay

a. (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted

b. (Piel)

1. to spoil, ruin

2. to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally)

c. (Hiphil)

1. to spoil, ruin, destroy

2. to pervert, corrupt (morally)

3. destroyer (participle)

d. (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle)

Aramaic equivalent: she.chat (שְׁחַת "to corrupt" H7844)

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Concordance 135 verses

  1. Genesis 6:11 וַתִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת

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

  2. Genesis 6:12 נִשְׁחָ֑תָההִשְׁחִ֧ית

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

  3. Genesis 6:13 מַשְׁחִיתָ֖ם

    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.

  4. Genesis 6:17 לְשַׁחֵ֣ת

    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.

  5. Genesis 9:11 לְשַׁחֵ֥ת

    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.”

  6. Genesis 9:15 לְשַׁחֵ֖ת

    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.

  7. Genesis 13:10 שַׁחֵ֣ת

    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.)

  8. Genesis 18:28 הֲתַשְׁחִ֥יתאַשְׁחִ֔ית

    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.”

  9. Genesis 18:31 אַשְׁחִ֔ית

    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.”

  10. Genesis 18:32 אַשְׁחִ֔ית

    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.”

  11. Genesis 19:13 מַשְׁחִתִ֣יםלְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃

    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.”

  12. Genesis 19:14 מַשְׁחִ֥ית

    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.

  13. Genesis 19:29 בְּשַׁחֵ֤ת

    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.

  14. Genesis 38:9 וְשִׁחֵ֣ת

    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.

  15. Exodus 8:24 תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת

    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.

  16. Exodus 12:23 הַמַּשְׁחִ֔ית

    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.

  17. Exodus 21:26 וְשִֽׁחֲתָ֑הּ

    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.

  18. Exodus 32:7 שִׁחֵ֣ת

    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.

  19. Leviticus 19:27 תַשְׁחִ֔ית

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

  20. Numbers 32:15 וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם

    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.”

  21. Deuteronomy 4:16 תַּשְׁחִת֔וּן

    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,

  22. Deuteronomy 4:25 וְהִשְׁחַתֶּ֗ם

    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—

  23. Deuteronomy 4:31 יַשְׁחִיתֶ֑ךָ

    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.

  24. Deuteronomy 9:12 שִׁחֵ֣ת

    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.”

  25. Deuteronomy 9:26 תַּשְׁחֵ֤ת

    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.

  26. Deuteronomy 10:10 הַשְׁחִיתֶֽךָ׃

    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.

  27. Deuteronomy 20:19 תַשְׁחִ֤ית

    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?

  28. Deuteronomy 20:20 תַשְׁחִ֖ית

    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.

  29. Deuteronomy 31:29 הַשְׁחֵ֣תתַּשְׁחִת֔וּן

    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.”

  30. Deuteronomy 32:5 שִׁחֵ֥ת

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

  31. Joshua 22:33 לְשַׁחֵת֙

    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.

  32. Judges 2:19 וְהִשְׁחִ֣יתוּ

    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.

  33. Judges 6:4 וַיַּשְׁחִ֙יתוּ֙

    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.

  34. Judges 6:5 לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃

    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.

  35. Judges 20:21 וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ

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

  36. Judges 20:25 וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩

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

  37. Judges 20:35 וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩

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

  38. Judges 20:42 מַשְׁחִיתִ֥ים

    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.

  39. Ruth 4:6 אַשְׁחִ֖ית

    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.”

  40. 1 Samuel 6:5 הַמַּשְׁחִיתִם֙

    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.

  41. 1 Samuel 13:17 הַמַּשְׁחִ֛ית

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

  42. 1 Samuel 14:15 וְהַמַּשְׁחִ֔ית

    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.

  43. 1 Samuel 23:10 לְשַׁחֵ֥ת

    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.

  44. 1 Samuel 26:9 תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֑הוּ

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

  45. 1 Samuel 26:15 לְהַשְׁחִ֖ית

    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?

  46. 2 Samuel 1:14 לְשַׁחֵ֖ת

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

  47. 2 Samuel 11:1 וַיַּשְׁחִ֙תוּ֙

    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.

  48. 2 Samuel 14:11 לְשַׁחֵ֔ת

    “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.”

  49. 2 Samuel 20:15 מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ם

    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,

  50. 2 Samuel 20:20 אַשְׁחִֽית׃

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

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