מַשְׁחֵת
mashchêth · H4892 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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weapon of destruction
Literally: artifact of destruction; hence: a lethal weapon
ExamplesEzekiel 9:1 Then He cried out in my presence with a loud voice, saying, “Come forward, you executioners of the city, each with his weapon of destruction in his hand.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כְּלִיvessel, utensil, weapon 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- ὄλεθρος ólethros · G3639 · ruin, destruction, to destroy
- Greek noun denoting destruction or ruin, a natural translation equivalent for the Hebrew מַשְׁחֵת in contexts of destructive agency or instruments of destruction.
- φθορά phthorá · G5356 · ruin, destruction, to rot
- Greek noun for destruction/corruption, semantically overlapping with the destroying/corrupting sense of מַשְׁחֵת, though φθορά may emphasize the result more than the active destroying process.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Weapons001003001001020
- The word denotes a destroying agent or instrument, associated with the tools of violent destruction.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4892. mashcheth מַשְׁחֵת noun [masculine] id.; — מַשְׁחֵתוֺ לִי כְּ Eze 9:1.
מַשְׁחֵת noun [masculine] id.; — מַשְׁחֵתוֺ לִי כְּ Eze 9:1.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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