Blight
שְׁדֵפָהStrong’s H7711shedephah (she-de-phah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shedephah is the Hebrew word usually translated “blight” and “scorching”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.”
Meaning
- Blighted or blasted thing, blighted, blasted
How it's translated
- blight 2
- with blight 2
- and with blight 1
- and scorching 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Amos 1
- Haggai 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 8:37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
- 2 Kings 19:26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
- 2 Chronicles 6:28If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
- Amos 4:9I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
- Haggai 2:17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁדֵפָה shedephah · blight
blighted or blasted thing, blighted, blasted Another spelling of shid.da.phon (שִׁדָּפוֹן "blight" H7711B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “blight” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLIGHT, noun
- A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scorched.
- Any thing nipping or blasting.
All definitions and other forms of “blight”
BLIGHT, verb transitive
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent growth, and fertility; to frustrate.
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.