שָׁמַדshâmad
Niph`al: be exterminated, destroyed (Ezekiel 32:12; Isaiah 48:19; Proverbs 14:11)
Pronunciation: shaw-mad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8045
Meanings
1. be annihilated, exterminated (Genesis 34:30; Judges 21:16; 2 Samuel 21:5)
2. be destroyed, be devastated (Hosea 10:8; Proverbs 14:11; Jeremiah 48:8)
Hiph`il
1. annihilate, exterminate (Deuteronomy 1:27; Deuteronomy 2:22; Deuteronomy 6:15)
2. destroy (Micah 5:13; Isaiah 23:11; Leviticus 26:30)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 90 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 34:30 Afterward Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have ruined me! You’ve made me stink among all the people of this land—among all the Canaanites and Perizzites. We are so few that they will join forces and crush us. I will be ruined, and my entire household will be wiped out!”
- Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.
- Numbers 33:52 you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines.
- Deuteronomy 1:27 You complained in your tents and said, ‘The Lord must hate us. That’s why he has brought us here from Egypt—to hand us over to the Amorites to be slaughtered.
- Deuteronomy 2:12 In earlier times the Horites had lived in Seir, but they were driven out and displaced by the descendants of Esau, just as Israel drove out the people of Canaan when the Lord gave Israel their land.)
- Deuteronomy 2:21 They were also as strong and numerous and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed them so the Ammonites could occupy their land.
See every passage
- Genesis 34:30
- Leviticus 26:30
- Numbers 33:52
- Deuteronomy 1:27, 2:12, 2:21, 2:22, 2:23, 4:3, 4:26, 6:15, 7:4, 7:23, 7:24, 9:3, 9:8, 9:14, 9:19, 9:20, 9:25, 12:30, 28:20, 28:24, 28:45, 28:48, 28:51, 28:61, 28:63, 31:3, 31:4, 33:27
- Joshua 7:12, 9:24, 11:14, 11:20, 23:15, 24:8
- Judges 21:16
- 1 Samuel 24:21
- 2 Samuel 14:7, 14:11, 14:16, 21:5, 22:38
- 1 Kings 13:34, 15:29, 16:12
- 2 Kings 10:17, 10:28, 21:9
- 1 Chronicles 5:25
- 2 Chronicles 20:10, 20:23, 33:9
- Esther 3:6, 3:13, 4:8, 7:4, 8:11
- Psalms 37:38, 83:10, 92:7, 106:23, 106:34, 145:20
- Proverbs 14:11
- Isaiah 10:7, 13:9, 14:23, 23:11, 26:14, 48:19
- Jeremiah 48:8, 48:42
- Lamentations 3:66
- Ezekiel 14:9, 25:7, 32:12, 34:16
- Daniel 11:44
- Hosea 10:8
- Amos 2:9, 9:8
- Micah 5:14
- Haggai 2:22
- Zechariah 12:9
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).