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Lexicon :: Strong's H8045 - šāmaḏ

Aa
שָׁמַד
Transliteration
šāmaḏ
Pronunciation
shaw-mad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2406

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁמַד shâmad, shaw-mad'; a primitive root; to desolate:—destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 90x

The KJV translates Strong's H8045 in the following manner: destroy (83x), destruction (1x), overthrown (1x), perished (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 90x
The KJV translates Strong's H8045 in the following manner: destroy (83x), destruction (1x), overthrown (1x), perished (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated

    1. (Niphal)

      1. to be annihilated, be exterminated

      2. to be destroyed, be devastated

    2. (Hiphil)

      1. to annihilate, exterminate

      2. to destroy

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁמַד shâmad, shaw-mad'; a primitive root; to desolate:—destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, × utterly.
STRONGS H8045: Abbreviations
[שָׁמַד]90 verb
Niph. be exterminated, destroyed (Late Hebrew derived species; Aramaic שְׁמַד Pa. cause to apostatize (Jastr); Syriac bdb102901 seems disputed (in Lexicons); NöEut. Nab. 32 curse; BaES 10 cites Assyrian ašmud, I destroyed; Gerber112 thinks verb denominative); — Perfect 3rd person masculine singular consecutive וְנִשְׁמַד Ezekiel 32:12 +, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשָּׁמֵ Isaiah 48:19; Proverbs 14:11; 2nd person masculine plural תִּשָּׁמֵד֑וּן Deuteronomy 4:26; Infinitiveabsolute הִשָּׁמֵד Deuteronomy 4:26; construct suffix הִשָּׁמֶדְךָ Deuteronomy 28:20, etc.; —
†1. of person be annihilated, exterminated, Genesis 34:30 (J), Judges 21:16; 2 Samuel 21:5 (+ מֵהִתְיַצֵּב בְּ; — but read לְהַשְׁמִידֵגוּ Greek Version of the LXX Ew We Dr and others), Psalm 37:38 (|| נִכְדָת), Psalm 83:11; of people Deuteronomy 4:26 (הִשָּׁמֵד תּשּׁ׳), Deuteronomy 7:23; Deuteronomy 12:30 (+ מִפָּנֶיךָ Deuteronomy 28:20 (|| אָבַד Deuteronomy 28:24; Deuteronomy 28:45; Deuteronomy 28:51; Deuteronomy 28:61, Jeremiah 48:42 (+מֵעִם. Ezekiel 33:12; Psalm 92:8 (+ עֲדֵיעַֿד, compare also וְלֹא יִשָּׁמֵד שְׁמוֺ מִלְּפָנָי֑ Isaiah 48:19 (+ יִכָרֵת; וַרְעֶ֑ךָ etc., in || clause).
†2. be destroyed, of bamoth, Hosea 10:8, compare (בֵּית רְשָׁעִים) Proverbs 14:11; be devastated, of land, Jeremiah 48:8 (|| אבר).
Hiph.69 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִשְׁמִיד Deuteronomy 2:22 +, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַשְׁמִיד Isaiah 13:9 +, וַיַּשְׁמֵד 1 Kings 16:12; 2 Kings 10:28, etc.; Imperative masculine singular הַשְׁמֵד Deuteronomy 33:27; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁמֵד Isaiah 14:28, יֵ֯ד Amos 9:8; construct לְהַשְׁמִיר Joshua 9:24 +, also †עַד הִשְׁמִידְךָ Deuteronomy 7:24, וֺ- Deuteronomy 28:48, ָ֯ ם - Joshua 11:14 (but read in all הַשׁ׳, as Joshua 23:15, see DrDeuteronomy 7:24), לַשְׁמִד †Isaiah 23:11, etc.; —
1. annihilate, exterminate: accusative of person or a people, subject י׳ or human person, Deuteronomy 1:27; Deuteronomy 2:22 (+ מִפְּנֵי person), Deuteronomy 6:15 (+ הָאֲרָמָה מֵעַל־פְּנֵי), Deuteronomy 9:20 + 16 times Deuteronomy; Joshua 7:12 (accusative הַחֵרֶם; + מִקִּרְבְּכֶם), Joshua 9:24 + 4 times Joshua (all RD), 2 Kings 14:16; 1 Kings 13:34; Amos 9:8; Isaiah 13:9; Isaiah 26:14; Esther 3:6, 13 + 23 times; accusative וְשָׁרָשָׁיו פִּרְיוֹ (figurative) Amos 2:9, compare Ezekiel 34:16 (but Vrss Co Toy and others [not Hi Krae] אֶשְׁמֹר); אֶתשְֿׁמִי הִשׁ׳ 1 Samuel 24:22 (Gi 1 Samuel 24:21), 2 Samuel 22:38; 1 Kings 16:12; Psalm 145:20; הַשְׁמֵד as substantive, Isaiah 14:23 besom of extermination; accusative אֶתהַֿבַּעַל 2 Kings 10:28, of extirpating Baal-worship מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל.
†2. destroy, cities Micah 5:13, fortresses Isaiah 23:11, bamoth Leviticus 26:30 (H), Numbers 33:52 (P; || אִבֵּד), חֹזֶק מַמְלְכוֺת הַגּוֺיִם Haggai 2:22.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8046.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:30

Leviticus

26:30

Numbers

33:52

Deuteronomy

1:27; 2:22; 2:22; 4:26; 4:26; 4:26; 6:15; 7:23; 7:24; 7:24; 9:20; 12:30; 28:20; 28:20; 28:24; 28:45; 28:48; 28:51; 28:61; 33:27

Joshua

7:12; 9:24; 9:24; 11:14; 23:15

Judges

21:16

1 Samuel

24:21; 24:22

2 Samuel

21:5; 22:38

1 Kings

13:34; 16:12; 16:12

2 Kings

10:28; 10:28; 14:16

Esther

3:6; 3:13; 10

Psalms

37:38; 83:11; 92:8; 145:20

Proverbs

14:11; 14:11

Isaiah

13:9; 13:9; 14:23; 14:28; 23:11; 23:11; 26:14; 48:19; 48:19

Jeremiah

48:8; 48:42

Ezekiel

32:12; 33:12; 34:16

Hosea

10:8

Amos

2:9; 9:8; 9:8

Micah

5:13

Haggai

2:22

H8045

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8045 matches the Hebrew שָׁמַד (šāmaḏ),
which occurs 90 times in 86 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 34:30–2Ki 21:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau took their place; they sent destruction on them and took their land for themselves, as Israel did to the land of his heritage which the Lord gave them.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:21 - They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22 - As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on the Horites before them, and they took their land where they are living to this day:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:23 - And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their land.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:3 - Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26 - May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to a complete end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4 - For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:23 - But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:3 - Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:8 - Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19 - For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:20 - The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3 - The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4 - The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27 - The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12 - For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24 - And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15 - And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21 - So give me your oath by the Lord, that you will not put an end to my seed after me or let my name be cut off from my father's family.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5 - And they said to the king, As for the man by whom we were wasted, and who made designs against us to have us completely cut off from the land of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:38 - I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:12 - So Zimri put to death all the family of Baasha, so that the word which the Lord said against him by the mouth of Jehu the prophet came about;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - And when he came to Samaria, he put to death all those of Ahab's family who were still in Samaria, till there were no more of them, as the Lord had said to Elijah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28 - So Jehu put an end to the worship of Baal in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

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