שָׁדַדshâdad
deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin
Pronunciation: shaw-dad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7703
Meanings
Qal: violently destory, = slay, = devastate, = despoil, as substantive devastator (despoiler?) (Ezekiel 32:12; Psalms 17:9; Psalms 91:6)
Niph`al: שָׁדוֺד נְשַׁדֻּנוּ, we are utterly ruined.
Pi`el: assault (Proverbs 24:15; Proverbs 19:26)
Pu`al: be devastated (Isaiah 15:1; Jeremiah 4:20; Nahum 3:7)
Hoph`al: be devastated, (or Qal passive) (Hosea 10:14; Isaiah 33:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 57 times in the Bible.
- Judges 5:27 He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet. And where he sank, there he died.
- Job 12:6 But robbers are left in peace, and those who provoke God live in safety— though God keeps them in his power.
- Job 15:21 The sound of terror rings in their ears, and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.
- Psalms 17:9 Protect me from wicked people who attack me, from murderous enemies who surround me.
- Psalms 137:8 O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.
- Proverbs 11:3 Honesty guides good people; dishonesty destroys treacherous people.
See every passage
- Judges 5:27
- Job 12:6, 15:21
- Psalms 17:9, 137:8
- Proverbs 11:3, 19:26, 24:15
- Isaiah 15:1, 16:4, 21:2, 23:1, 23:14, 33:1
- Jeremiah 4:13, 4:20, 4:30, 5:6, 6:26, 9:19, 10:20, 12:12, 15:8, 25:36, 47:4, 48:1, 48:8, 48:15, 48:18, 48:20, 48:32, 49:3, 49:10, 49:28, 51:48, 51:53, 51:55, 51:56
- Ezekiel 32:12
- Hosea 10:2, 10:14
- Joel 1:10
- Obadiah 1:5
- Micah 2:4
- Nahum 3:7
- Zechariah 11:2, 11:3
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).