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H7843שָׁחַתsha.chat

to ruinPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 17
  2. 4
  3. 1
  4. 1
  5. 11
  6. 1
  7. 7
  8. 1
  9. 6
  10. 7
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 5
  13. 5
  14. 10
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. 5
  20. 5
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 11
  24. 21
  25. 3
  26. 11
  27. 5
  28. 3
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 1
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. 1
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 1
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. 3

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146 occurrences in 135 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Proverbs 23:8

    The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

    וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּ (שִׁחַ֗תָּ) shi.Cha.ta “you will spoil”

  2. Proverbs 25:26

    Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

    מָשְׁחָ֑ת ma.she.Chat “ruined”

  3. Proverbs 28:24

    He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.

    מַשְׁחִֽית׃ mash.Chit “destruction”

  4. Isaiah 1:4

    O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

    מַשְׁחִיתִ֑ים mash.chi.Tim “[who] behave corruptly”

  5. Isaiah 11:9

    There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.

    יַשְׁחִ֖יתוּ yash.Chi.tu “they will destroy”

  6. Isaiah 14:20

    As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

    שִׁחַ֖תָּ shi.Cha.ta “you have ruined”

  7. Isaiah 36:10

    And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

    לְהַשְׁחִיתָ֑הּ (הַשְׁחִיתָ֑) hash.chi.Ta “destroy”וְהַשְׁחִיתָֽהּ׃ (הַשְׁחִיתָֽ) hash.chi.Ta “destroy”

  8. Isaiah 37:12

    Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

    הִשְׁחִ֣יתוּ hish.Chi.tu “they destroyed”

  9. Isaiah 51:13

    And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wr

    לְהַשְׁחִ֑ית (הַשְׁחִ֑ית) hash.Chit “destroy”

  10. Isaiah 54:16

    See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.

    מַשְׁחִ֖ית mash.Chit “a destroyer”

  11. Isaiah 65:8

    This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.

    תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֔הוּ (תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֔) tash.chi.Te. “you destroy”הַֽשְׁחִ֥ית hash.Chit “to destroy”

  12. Isaiah 65:25

    The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

    יַשְׁחִ֛יתוּ yash.Chi.tu “they will destroy”

  13. Jeremiah 2:30

    I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

    מַשְׁחִֽית׃ mash.Chit “destroying”

  14. Jeremiah 4:7

    A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

    וּמַשְׁחִ֣ית (מַשְׁחִ֣ית) mash.Chit “a destroyer of”

  15. Jeremiah 5:10

    Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

    וְשַׁחֵ֔תוּ (שַׁחֵ֔תוּ) sha.Che.tu “destroy [them]”

  16. Jeremiah 6:5

    Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

    וְנַשְׁחִ֖יתָה (נַשְׁחִ֖יתָה) nash.Chi.tah “let us destroy”

  17. Jeremiah 6:28

    All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

    מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ים mash.chi.Tim “[are] destroyers”

  18. Jeremiah 11:19

    But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

    נַשְׁחִ֨יתָה nash.Chi.tah “let us destroy”

  19. Jeremiah 12:10

    The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

    שִֽׁחֲת֣וּ shi.cha.Tu “they have ruined”

  20. Jeremiah 13:7

    So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.

    נִשְׁחַ֣ת nish.Chat “it was ruined”

  21. Jeremiah 13:9

    The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

    אַשְׁחִ֞ית 'ash.Chit “I will ruin”

  22. Jeremiah 13:14

    I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

    מֵהַשְׁחִיתָֽם׃ (הַשְׁחִיתָֽ) hash.chi.Ta “destroying”

  23. Jeremiah 15:3

    And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.

    וּלְהַשְׁחִֽית׃ (הַשְׁחִֽית) hash.Chit “destroy”

  24. Jeremiah 15:6

    You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.

    וָֽאַשְׁחִיתֵ֔ךְ (אַשְׁחִיתֵ֔) 'ash.chi.Te “I have destroyed”

  25. Jeremiah 18:4

    And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

    וְנִשְׁחַ֣ת (נִשְׁחַ֣ת) nish.Chat “it was spoiled”