Destruction
מַשְׁחִיתStrong’s H4889mashchit (mash-chit)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mashchit is the Hebrew word usually translated “destruction”, “destroyer” and “into destruction”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.”
Meaning
- Ruin, destruction
How it's translated
- destruction 4
- to destruction 4
- for destruction 2
- a destroyer 1
- into destruction 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Exodus 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
- 2 Kings 23:13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
- 2 Chronicles 20:23For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
- 2 Chronicles 22:4Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
- Proverbs 18:9He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
- Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Hebrew dictionary
מַשְׁחִית mashchit · destruction
ruin, destruction
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “destruction” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESTRUCTION, noun
- The act of destroying; demolition; a pulling down; subversion; ruin, by whatever means; as the destruction of buildings, or of towns. destruction consists in the annihilation of the form of any theing; that form of parts which constitues it what it is; as the destruction of grass or herbage by eating; of a forest, by cutting down the trees; or it denotes a total annihilation; as the destruction of a particular government; the destruction of happiness.
- Death; murder; slaughter; massacre.“There was a deadly destruction throughout all the city” 1 Samuel 5:11
- Ruin.“DESTRUCTION and misery are in their ways” Romans 3:16
- Eternal death.“Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction” Matthew 7:13
All definitions
- Cause of destruction; a consuming plague; a destroyer.“The destruction that wasteth at noon-day” Psalms 91:6
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.