H7843: שָׁחַת

Extended definition

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H7843 is translated

• destroy ×18
• it ×13
• they destroyed ×9
• you ×7
• them ×6
• destroyer ×4
• destroying ×4
• he will destroy ×4
• i will destroy it ×3
• you will destroy ×3
• they will destroy ×3
• it was corrupt ×2

Bible verses with H7843 (shâchath)

Shâchath appears in 135 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

• Genesis 6:11

  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

• Genesis 6:12

  And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

• Genesis 6:13

  And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

• Genesis 6:17

  And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

• Genesis 9:11

  And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

• Genesis 9:15

  And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

• Genesis 13:10

  And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

• 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.

• Genesis 18:31

  And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

• Genesis 18:32

  And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

• Genesis 19:13

  For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

• Genesis 19:14

  And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

• Genesis 19:29

  And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

• Genesis 38:9

  And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

• Exodus 8:24

  And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

• Exodus 12:23

  For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

• Exodus 21:26

  And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

• Exodus 32:7

  And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

• Leviticus 19:27

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

• Numbers 32:15

  For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

• Deuteronomy 4:16

  Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

• Deuteronomy 4:25

  When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:

• Deuteronomy 4:31

  (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

• Deuteronomy 9:12

  And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

• Deuteronomy 9:26

  I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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