shamad (to destroy)

Meaning

To destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated(Niphal) · (Hiphil)

How it's translated

to destroy 8
being destroyed you 5
and i will destroy 4
and to destroy 4
to annihilate 4
he will destroy 3
he had destroyed 3
and it will be destroyed 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Deuteronomy 28
Joshua 6
Psalms 6
Isaiah 6
2 Samuel 5
Esther 5

25 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Zechariah 12:9In contextAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Leviticus 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Numbers 33:52Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Deuteronomy 1:27And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Deuteronomy 2:12The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.

All 86 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 34:30
Leviticus 1: 26:30
Numbers 1: 33:52
Deuteronomy 28: 1:27 2:12 2:21 2:22 2:23 4:3 4:26 6:15 7:4 7:23 7:24 9:3 9:8 9:14 9:19 9:20 9:25 12:30 28:20 28:24 28:45 28:48 28:51 28:61 28:63 31:3 31:4 33:27
Joshua 6: 7:12 9:24 11:14 11:20 23:15 24:8
Judges 1: 21:16
1 Samuel 1: 24:21
2 Samuel 5: 14:7 14:11 14:16 21:5 22:38
1 Kings 3: 13:34 15:29 16:12
2 Kings 3: 10:17 10:28 21:9
1 Chronicles 1: 5:25
2 Chronicles 3: 20:10 20:23 33:9
Esther 5: 3:6 3:13 4:8 7:4 8:11
Psalms 6: 37:38 83:10 92:7 106:23 106:34 145:20
Proverbs 1: 14:11
Isaiah 6: 10:7 13:9 14:23 23:11 26:14 48:19
Jeremiah 2: 48:8 48:42
Lamentations 1: 3:66
Ezekiel 4: 14:9 25:7 32:12 34:16
Daniel 1: 11:44
Hosea 1: 10:8
Amos 2: 2:9 9:8
Micah 1: 5:14
Haggai 1: 2:22
Zechariah 1: 12:9

Hebrew dictionary

שָׁמַד shamad · to destroy

1) to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be annihilated, be exterminated 1a2) to be destroyed, be devastated 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to annihilate, exterminate 1b2) to destroy Aramaic equivalent: she.mad (שְׁמַד "to destroy" H8046)

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.