Strong's Concordance H7843

Original Word: שָׁחַת
Transliteration: shâchath
Phonetic Spelling: shaw-khath'
a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively); batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, × utterly, waste(-r).

Usages throughout the bible

Jeremiah 22:7 - And I will prepare destroyers H7843 against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

Jeremiah 36:29 - And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy H7843 this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Jeremiah 48:18 - Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy H7843 thy strong holds.

Jeremiah 49:9 - If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy H7843 till they have enough.

Jeremiah 51:1 - Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying H7843 wind;

Jeremiah 51:11 - Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy H7843 it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Jeremiah 51:20 - Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy H7843 kingdoms;

Jeremiah 51:25 - Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest H7843 all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

Lamentations 2:5 - The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed H7843 his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Lamentations 2:6 - And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed H7843 his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Lamentations 2:8 - The LORD hath purposed to destroy H7843 the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

Ezekiel 5:16 - When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy H7843 you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

Ezekiel 9:8 - And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy H7843 all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

Ezekiel 16:47 - Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted H7843 more than they in all thy ways.

Ezekiel 20:17 - Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying H7843 them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:44 - And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt H7843 doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 22:30 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy H7843 it: but I found none.

Ezekiel 23:11 - And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt H7843 in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

Ezekiel 26:4 - And they shall destroy H7843 the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Ezekiel 28:17 - Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted H7843 thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Ezekiel 30:11 - He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy H7843 the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

Ezekiel 43:3 - And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy H7843 the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

Daniel 8:24 - And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy H7843 wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy H7843 the mighty and the holy people.

Daniel 8:25 - And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy H7843 many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

Daniel 9:26 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy H7843 the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

Daniel 11:17 - He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting H7843 her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

Hosea 9:9 - They have deeply corrupted H7843 themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

Hosea 11:9 - I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy H7843 Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

Hosea 13:9 - O Israel, thou hast destroyed H7843 thyself; but in me is thine help.

Amos 1:11 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off H7843 all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

Nahum 2:2 - For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred H7843 their vine branches.

Zephaniah 3:7 - I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted H7843 all their doings.

Malachi 1:14 - But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: H7843 for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

Malachi 2:8 - But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted H7843 the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:11 - And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy H7843 the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.