שְׁמַד
shᵉmad · H8046 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to destroy, to exterminate, to wipe out, to demolish
Causative action by which humans, deities, or events completely remove humans, animals, or objects from existence; by (a usually unnatural) death, aggression, hardship, disaster, destruction, or direct divine intervention; often as punishment
ExamplesDaniel 7:26 ‘But the court will convene for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- כָּלָה kâlâh · H3615 · to be finished, to be completed, to come to an end
- Hebrew verb meaning to consume or bring to an end, frequently used in contexts of destruction and consumption parallel to שְׁמַד
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἀναλίσκω analískō · G355 · to destroy
- Greek verb meaning to consume or destroy completely, a standard translation equivalent for destruction/consumption vocabulary in Hebrew
- κατεσθίω katesthíō · G2719 · to eat up, to destroy utterly, to consume completely
- Greek verb meaning to consume or devour, commonly used to translate Hebrew destruction/consumption terminology
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Exist002002002006
- Daniel 7:26 recounts that the court will convene for judgment, "and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever."
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8046. shmad [שְׁמַד] verb Haph`el destroy (ᵑ7 Pa`el make apostatize; compare Biblical…
[שְׁמַד] verb Haph`el destroy (ᵑ7 Pa`el make apostatize; compare Biblical Hebrew); — Infinitive לְהַשְׁמָדָה Dan 7:26 (object omitted, = dominion).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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