Quick Definition
to ruin
Strong's Definition
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r).
TWOT Reference: 2370
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁחַת (sha.chat) — to ruin. 1) to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay 1a) (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to spoil, ruin 1b2) to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to spoil, ruin, destroy 1c2) to pervert, corrupt (morally) 1c3) destroyer (participle) 1d) (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle) Aramaic equivalent: she.chat (שְׁחַת "to corrupt" H7844)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַשְׁחִית · מַשְׁחֵת · מִשְׁחָת · מָשְׁחָת
Impact | verb nif, verb hof
to be ruined, to be spoiled, to be blemished = process by which objects are affected by violence, destruction, putrefaction, pollution, blemishes, and other factors that may have a destructive impact
Impact | verb hif, verb pi
to destroy, to lay waste, to massacre, to ravage = causative action or process by which humans, deities, or animals cause (other) humans, animals, or objects to be affected by violence, destruction, death, putrefaction, pollution, blemishes, and other factors that may have a destructive or deadly impact
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End | verb pi, verb hif
to destroy, to violate literally: to destroy; hence: = causative process or action by which humans or deities cause conditions or events to be affected negatively
Evil | verb pe'al, verb nif
to be corrupted literally: to be destroyed; hence: = state in which human behavior has been affected by evil
Evil | verb hif, verb pi
to act corruptly literally: to destroy; hence: = action by which humans behave in a way that has been affected by evil
EXO 32:7 · DEU 4:16 · DEU 4:25 · DEU 9:12 · DEU 31:29 · DEU 31:29 · DEU 32:5 · JDG 2:19 · 2CH 27:2 · PSA 14:1 · PSA 53:2 · ISA 1:4 · JER 6:28 · EZK 16:47 · EZK 23:11 · HOS 9:9
Wrong | verb nif
to be corrupted literally: to be destroyed; hence: = process by which a condition or activity is affected by evil
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁחַת] 161 vb. go to ruin (?) Niph. be marred, spoiled
Pi. spoil, ruin
pervert, corrupt
Hiph. spoil, ruin
pervert, corrupt
Hoph. spoiled, ruined
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