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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. Genesis 6:11

    And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

    וַתִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת (תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת) ti.sha.Chet “<it> was corrupt”

  2. Genesis 6:12

    And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.

    נִשְׁחָ֑תָה nish.Cha.tah “it was corrupt”הִשְׁחִ֧ית hish.Chit “<it> had corrupted”

  3. Genesis 6:13

    And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

    מַשְׁחִיתָ֖ם (מַשְׁחִיתָ֖) mash.chi.Ta “about to destroy”

  4. Genesis 6:17

    For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

    לְשַׁחֵ֣ת (שַׁחֵ֣ת) sha.Chet “destroy”

  5. Genesis 9:11

    And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

    לְשַׁחֵ֥ת (שַׁחֵ֥ת) sha.Chet “destroy”

  6. Genesis 9:15

    And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

    לְשַׁחֵ֖ת (שַׁחֵ֖ת) sha.Chet “destroy”

  7. Genesis 13:10

    And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

    שַׁחֵ֣ת sha.Chet “destroyed”

  8. Genesis 18:28

    If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

    הֲתַשְׁחִ֥ית (תַשְׁחִ֥ית) tash.Chit “will you destroy”אַשְׁחִ֔ית 'ash.Chit “I will destroy [it]”

  9. Genesis 18:31

    And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

    אַשְׁחִ֔ית 'ash.Chit “I will destroy [it]”

  10. Genesis 18:32

    And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

    אַשְׁחִ֔ית 'ash.Chit “I will destroy [it]”

  11. Genesis 19:13

    For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

    מַשְׁחִתִ֣ים mash.chi.Tim “[are] about to destroy”לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃ (שַׁחֲתָֽ) sha.cha.Ta “destroy”

  12. Genesis 19:14

    And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.

    מַשְׁחִ֥ית mash.Chit “[is] about to destroy”

  13. Genesis 19:29

    So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

    בְּשַׁחֵ֤ת (שַׁחֵ֤ת) sha.Chet “destroyed”

  14. Genesis 38:9

    But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

    וְשִׁחֵ֣ת (שִׁחֵ֣ת) shi.Chet “he spoiled”

  15. Exodus 8:24

    And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.

    תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת ti.sha.Chet “it was ruined”

  16. Exodus 12:23

    For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction.

    הַמַּשְׁחִ֔ית (מַּשְׁחִ֔ית) mash.Chit “destroyer”

  17. Exodus 21:26

    If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    וְשִֽׁחֲתָ֑הּ (שִֽׁחֲתָ֑) shi.cha.Ta “he will destroy”

  18. Exodus 32:7

    And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;

    שִׁחֵ֣ת shi.Chet “it has behaved corruptly”

  19. Leviticus 19:27

    The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

    תַשְׁחִ֔ית tash.Chit “you will trim”

  20. Numbers 32:15

    For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

    וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם (שִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם) shi.cha.Tem “you will destroy”

  21. Deuteronomy 4:16

    So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

    תַּשְׁחִת֔וּן (תַּשְׁחִת֔וּ) tash.chi.Tu “you should act corruptly”

  22. Deuteronomy 4:25

    If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

    וְהִשְׁחַתֶּ֗ם (הִשְׁחַתֶּ֗ם) hish.cha.Tem “you will act corruptly”

  23. Deuteronomy 4:31

    Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.

    יַשְׁחִיתֶ֑ךָ (יַשְׁחִיתֶ֑) yash.chi.Te. “he will destroy”

  24. Deuteronomy 9:12

    And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselv

    שִׁחֵ֣ת shi.Chet “it has acted corruptly”

  25. Deuteronomy 9:26

    And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.

    תַּשְׁחֵ֤ת tash.Chet “you destroy”