The meaning of “שָׁחַת”
Understanding shâchath reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(...
שָׁחַת
batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r). - to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively) 1) to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay 1a) (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to spoil, ruin 1b2) to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to spoil, ruin, destroy 1c2) to pervert, corrupt (morally) 1c3) destroyer (participle) 1d) (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle)
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis 18:28 | “Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.” Word: שָׁחַת (shâchath) | |
| Joshua 22:33 | “And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.” Word: שָׁחַת (shâchath) | |
| 2 Kings 18:25 | “Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.” Word: שָׁחַת (shâchath) | |
| Isaiah 37:12 | “Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?” Word: שָׁחַת (shâchath) | |
| Hosea 11:9 | “I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.” Word: שָׁחַת (shâchath) |
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