Usually translated as
destroy, corrupt, mar, destroyer, destruction, lose, perish, waster, batter, cast off, corrupter, spill, spoiler, utterly, waste
Occurrences
Shâchath occurs 146 times in 135 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (14), Exodus (4), Leviticus (1), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (10), Joshua (1), Judges (7), Ruth (1), 1 Samuel (6), 2 Samuel (6), 2 Kings (4), 1 Chronicles (3), 2 Chronicles (10), Psalms (5), Proverbs (5), Isaiah (9), Jeremiah (21), Lamentations (3), Ezekiel (11), Daniel (4), Hosea (3), Amos (1), Nahum (1), Zephaniah (1), Malachi (3)
- Genesis 6:11 — The earth also was corrupt (וַתִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת) before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:12 — And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt (נִשְׁחָ֑תָה); for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- Genesis 6:12 — And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted (הִשְׁחִ֧ית) his way upon the earth.
- Genesis 6:13 — And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy (מַשְׁחִיתָ֖ם) them with the earth.
- Genesis 6:17 — And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy (לְשַׁחֵ֣ת) all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
- Genesis 9:11 — And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy (לְשַׁחֵ֥ת) the earth.
- Genesis 9:15 — And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy (לְשַׁחֵ֖ת) all flesh.
- Genesis 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed (שַׁחֵ֣ת) Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
- Genesis 18:28 — Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy (הֲתַשְׁחִ֥ית) all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
- Genesis 18:28 — Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy (אַשְׁחִ֔ית) it.
- Genesis 18:31 — And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy (אַשְׁחִ֔ית) it for twenty’s sake.
- Genesis 18:32 — And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy (אַשְׁחִ֔ית) it for ten’s sake.
- Genesis 19:13 — For we will destroy (מַשְׁחִתִ֣ים) this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
- Genesis 19:13 — For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy (לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ) it.
- Genesis 19:14 — And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy (מַשְׁחִ֥ית) this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
- Genesis 19:29 — And it came to pass, when God destroyed (בְּשַׁחֵ֤ת) the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
- Genesis 38:9 — And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled (וְשִׁחֵ֣ת) it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
- Exodus 8:24 — And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted (תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת) by reason of the swarm of flies.
- Exodus 12:23 — For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer (הַמַּשְׁחִ֔ית) to come in unto your houses to smite you.
- Exodus 21:26 — And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish (וְשִֽׁחֲתָ֑הּ); he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
- Exodus 32:7 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted (שִׁחֵ֣ת) themselves:
- Leviticus 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar (תַשְׁחִ֔ית) the corners of thy beard.
- Numbers 32:15 — For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy (וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם) all this people.
- Deuteronomy 4:16 — Lest ye corrupt (תַּשְׁחִת֔וּן) yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:25 — When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt (וְהִשְׁחַתֶּ֗ם) yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
- Deuteronomy 4:31 — (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy (יַשְׁחִיתֶ֑ךָ) thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
- Deuteronomy 9:12 — And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted (שִׁחֵ֣ת) themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Deuteronomy 9:26 — I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy (תַּשְׁחֵ֤ת) not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- Deuteronomy 10:10 — And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy (הַשְׁחִיתֶֽךָ) thee.
- Deuteronomy 20:19 — When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy (תַשְׁחִ֤ית) the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
- Deuteronomy 20:20 — Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy (תַשְׁחִ֖ית) and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 — For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt (תַּשְׁחִת֔וּן) yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 — For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt (הַשְׁחֵ֣ת) yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 32:5 — They have corrupted (שִׁחֵ֥ת) themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
- Joshua 22:33 — And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy (לְשַׁחֵת֙) the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
- Judges 2:19 — And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted (וְהִשְׁחִ֣יתוּ) themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
- Judges 6:4 — And they encamped against them, and destroyed (וַיַּשְׁחִ֙יתוּ֙) the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
- Judges 6:5 — For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy (לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ) it.
- Judges 20:21 — And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down (וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ) to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
- Judges 20:25 — And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed (וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩) down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
- Judges 20:35 — And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed (וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩) of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
- Judges 20:42 — Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed (מַשְׁחִיתִ֥ים) in the midst of them.
- Ruth 4:6 — And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar (אַשְׁחִ֖ית) mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
- 1 Samuel 6:5 — Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar (הַמַּשְׁחִיתִם֙) the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 13:17 — And the spoilers (הַמַּשְׁחִ֛ית) came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
- 1 Samuel 14:15 — And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers (וְהַמַּשְׁחִ֔ית), they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
- 1 Samuel 23:10 — Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy (לְשַׁחֵ֥ת) the city for my sake.
- 1 Samuel 26:9 — And David said to Abishai, Destroy (תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֑הוּ) him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?
- 1 Samuel 26:15 — And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy (לְהַשְׁחִ֖ית) the king thy lord.
- 2 Samuel 1:14 — And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy (לְשַׁחֵ֖ת) the LORD’s anointed?