אַל תַּשְׁחֵתʼAl tashchêth

go to ruin (?)

Pronunciation: al tash-kayth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H516

Meanings

Niph`al: be marred, spoiled, be corrupted, corrupt, be injured, or even (hyperbole) ruined (Jeremiah 13:7; Jeremiah 18:4; Exodus 8:20)

Pi`el

1. spoil, ruin (Exodus 21:26; Jeremiah 12:10; Nahum 2:3)

2. pervert, corrupt (Ezekiel 28:17; Hosea 9:9; Exodus 32:7)

Hiph`il

1. spoil, ruin (Judges 6:4; Malachi 3:11; Deuteronomy 20:19)

2. pervert, corrupt, morally (Genesis 6:12; Proverbs 6:32; Zephaniah 3:7)

Hoph`al: spoiled, ruined (Proverbs 25:26; Malachi 1:14)

Same root

אַלʼal · H408not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
שָׁחַתshâchath · H7843to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

Psalms 57:0
Psalms 58:0
Psalms 59:0
Psalms 75:0

See every passage

Psalms 57:0, 58:0, 59:0, 75:0

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).