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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 Symeon and Levi, Ye have made me hateful so that I should be evil to all the inhabitants of the land, both among the Chananites and the Pherezites, and I am few in number; they will gather themselves against me and cut me in pieces, and I shall be utterly destroyed, and my house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - And ye shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and ye shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and ye shall demolish all their pillars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - And the Chorrhite dwelt in Seir before, and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them; and they dwelt in their place, as Israel did to the land of his inheritance, which the Lord gave to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:21 - A great nation and populous, and mightier than you, as also the Enakim: yet the Lord destroyed them from before them, and they inherited their land, and they dwelt there instead of them until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:22 - As they did to the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, even as they destroyed the Chorrhite from before them, and inherited [fn]their country, and dwelt therein instead of them until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:23 - And the Evites who dwell in Asedoth to Gaza, and the Cappadocians who came out of Cappadocia, destroyed them, and dwelt in their room.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:3 - Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in the case of Beel-phegor; for every man that went after Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26 - I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that ye shall surely perish from off the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it there; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - for the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God, lest the Lord thy God be very angry with thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:4 - For he will draw away thy son from me, and he will serve other gods; and the Lord will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:23 - And the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy them with a great destruction, until ye shall have utterly destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and ye shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before thee, until thou shalt have utterly destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:3 - And thou shalt know to-day, that the Lord thy God he shall go before thy face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before thee, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:8 - Also in Choreb ye provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of thee a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19 - And I [fn]was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly to destroy you; yet the Lord hearkened to me at this time also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - And he was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed before, for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - take heed to thyself that thou seek not to follow them after they are destroyed before thee, saying, How do these nations act towards their gods? I will do likewise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:20 - The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and consumption on all things on which thou shalt put thy hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed thee, and until he shall have consumed thee quickly because of thine evil devices, because thou hast forsaken me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed thee, and until it shall have quickly consumed thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and shall overtake thee, until he shall have consumed thee, and until he shall have destroyed thee; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commands, and his ordinances which he has commanded thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:48 - And thou shalt serve thine enemies, which the Lord will send forth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the want of all things; and thou shalt wear upon thy neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - And it shall eat up the young of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land, so as not to leave to thee corn, wine, oil, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep, until it shall have destroyed thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - And the Lord shall bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and every one that is written in the book of this law, until he shall have destroyed thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you; and ye shall be quickly removed from the land, into which ye go to inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3 - The Lord thy God who goes before thee, he shall destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt inherit them: and it shall be Joshua that goes before thy face, as the Lord has spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:4 - And the Lord thy God shall do to them as he did to Seon and Og the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, and to their land, as he destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:27 - And the rule of God shall protect thee, and that under the strength of the everlasting arms; and he shall cast forth the enemy from before thy face, saying, Perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12 - And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their [fn]back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will not any longer be with you, unless ye remove the cursed thing from yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24 - And they answered Joshua, saying, It was reported to us what the Lord thy God charged his servant Moses, to give you this land, and to destroy us and all that dwelt on it from before you; and we feared very much for our lives [fn]because of you, and therefore we did this thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And the children of Israel took all its spoils to themselves; and they slew all the men with the edge of the sword, until he destroyed them; they left not one of them breathing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was of the Lord to [fn]harden their hearts to go forth to war against Israel, that they might be utterly destroyed, that mercy should not be granted to them, but that they should be utterly destroyed, as the Lord said to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15 - And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon us which the Lord spoke concerning you, so the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil things, until he shall have destroyed you from off this good land, which the Lord has given you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - And he brought us into the land of the Amorites that dwelt beyond Jordan, and the Lord delivered them into our hands; and ye inherited their land, and utterly destroyed them from before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21 - (LXX 24:22) Now then swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, that thou wilt not blot out my name from the house of my father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - And behold the whole family rose up against thine handmaid, and they said, Give up the one that smote his brother, and we will put him to death for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and we will take away even your heir: so they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to [fn]leave my husband remnant or name on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - And she said, Let now the king remember concerning his Lord God in that the avenger of blood is multiplied to destroy, and let them not take away my son. And he said, As the Lord lives, not a hair of thy son shall fall to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - for the king will hear. Let him rescue his handmaid out of the hand of the man that seeks to cast out me and my son from the inheritance of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5 - And he said, What say ye? speak, and I will do it for you. And they said to the king, The man who would have made an end of us, and persecuted us, who plotted against us to destroy us, let us utterly destroy him, so that he shall have no standing in all the coasts of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:38 - I will pursue my enemies, and will utterly destroy them; and I will not turn again till I have consumed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - And this [fn]thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its removal from the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - And it came to pass when he reigned, that he smote the whole house of Jeroboam, and left [fn]none that breathed of Jeroboam, until he had destroyed him utterly, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by his servant Achia the Selonite,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:12 - that he smote all the house of Baasa, according to the word which the Lord spoke against the house of Baasa, and to Ju the prophet,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - And he entered into Samaria, and smote all that were left of Achaab in Samaria, until he had utterly destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Eliu.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28 - So Ju abolished Baal out of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they hearkened not; and Manasses led them astray to do evil in the sight of the Lord, beyond the nations whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.

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