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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 JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Proverbs 23:8

    The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

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

  2. Proverbs 25:26

    As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, so is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

    מָשְׁחָ֑ת ma.she.Chat “ruined”

  3. Proverbs 28:24

    Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith: 'It is no transgression', the same is the companion of a destroyer.

    מַשְׁחִֽית׃ mash.Chit “destruction”

  4. Isaiah 1:4

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly; they have forsaken the LORD, they have contemned the Holy One of Israel, they are turned away backward.

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

  5. Isaiah 11:9

    They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

    יַשְׁחִ֖יתוּ yash.Chi.tu “they will destroy”

  6. Isaiah 14:20

    Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.

    שִׁחַ֖תָּ shi.Cha.ta “you have ruined”

  7. Isaiah 36:10

    And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said unto me: Go up against this land, and destroy it.'

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

  8. Isaiah 37:12

    Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?

    הִשְׁחִ֣יתוּ hish.Chi.tu “they destroyed”

  9. Isaiah 51:13

    And hast forgotten the LORD thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, as he maketh ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppresso

    לְהַשְׁחִ֑ית (הַשְׁחִ֑ית) hash.Chit “destroy”

  10. Isaiah 54:16

    Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

    מַשְׁחִ֖ית mash.Chit “a destroyer”

  11. Isaiah 65:8

    Thus saith the LORD: as, when wine is found in the cluster, one saith: 'Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it'; so will I do for My servants' sakes, that I may not destroy all.

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

  12. Isaiah 65:25

    The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, saith the LORD.

    יַשְׁחִ֛יתוּ yash.Chi.tu “they will destroy”

  13. Jeremiah 2:30

    In vain have I smitten your children--they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

    מַשְׁחִֽית׃ mash.Chit “destroying”

  14. Jeremiah 4:7

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations is set out, gone forth from his place; to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

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

  15. Jeremiah 5:10

    Go ye up into her rows, and destroy, but make not a full end; take away her shoots; for they are not the LORD'S.

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

  16. Jeremiah 6:5

    'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'

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

  17. Jeremiah 6:28

    They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly.

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

  18. Jeremiah 11:19

    But I was like a docile lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me: 'Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remember

    נַשְׁחִ֨יתָה nash.Chi.tah “let us destroy”

  19. Jeremiah 12:10

    Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

    שִֽׁחֲת֣וּ shi.cha.Tu “they have ruined”

  20. Jeremiah 13:7

    Then I went to Perath, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

    נִשְׁחַ֣ת nish.Chat “it was ruined”

  21. Jeremiah 13:9

    Thus saith the LORD: After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem,

    אַשְׁחִ֞ית 'ash.Chit “I will ruin”

  22. Jeremiah 13:14

    And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD; I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

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

  23. Jeremiah 15:3

    And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to drag, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

    וּלְהַשְׁחִֽית׃ (הַשְׁחִֽית) hash.Chit “destroy”

  24. Jeremiah 15:6

    Thou hast cast Me off, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward; therefore do I stretch out My hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

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

  25. Jeremiah 18:4

    And whensoever the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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