To destroy
צָמַתStrong’s H6789tsamat (tsa-mat)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsamat is the Hebrew word usually translated “destroy them”, “destroy” and “destroyed them”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.”
Meaning
- To put an end to, cut off, destroy, exterminate, extirpate(Qal) to put an end to, terminate · (Niphal) to be ended, be annihilated, be exterminated · (Piel) to put an end to · (Pilel) to be exterminated, be annihilated · (Hiphil) to exterminate, annihilate
How it's translated
- he will destroy them 2
- i will destroy 2
- and i destroyed them 1
- they are silenced 1
- i have been destroyed 1
- i destroyed them 1
- destroy them 1
- destroy me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 10
- Job 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Lamentations 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 6:17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
- Job 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
- Psalms 18:40Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
- Psalms 54:5He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
- Psalms 69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
- Psalms 73:27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Hebrew dictionary
צָמַת tsamat · to destroy
1) to put an end to, cut off, destroy, exterminate, extirpate 1a) (Qal) to put an end to, terminate 1b) (Niphal) to be ended, be annihilated, be exterminated 1c) (Piel) to put an end to 1d) (Pilel) to be exterminated, be annihilated 1e) (Hiphil) to exterminate, annihilate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “destroy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESTROY, verb transitive
[Latin To pile, to build.]
- To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.
- To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.
- To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.
- To lay waste; to make desolate.“Go up against this land, and destroy it” Isaiah 36:10
All definitions
- To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.“Ye shall destroy all this people” Numbers 32:15“All the wicked will he destroy” Psalms 145:20
- To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.“That the body of sin might be destroyed” Romans 6:6
- To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume.
- In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists.
- In chimistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.
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.