שְׁדֵפָהshᵉdêphâh
שְׁדֵפָה: blighted or blasted thing (2 Kings 19:26; Isaiah 37:27)
Pronunciation: shed-ay-faw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7711
Meanings
שִׁדָּפוֺן: blight, of crops (Amos 4:9; Haggai 2:17; Deuteronomy 28:22; 1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:22 The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die.
- 1 Kings 8:37 “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—
- 2 Kings 19:26 That is why their people have so little power and are so frightened and confused. They are as weak as grass, as easily trampled as tender green shoots. They are like grass sprouting on a housetop, scorched before it can grow lush and tall.
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—
- Amos 4:9 “I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees. But still you would not return to me,” says the Lord.
- Haggai 2:17 I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy everything you worked so hard to produce. Even so, you refused to return to me, says the Lord.
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).