the Fourth Week of Advent
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #8045 - שָׁמַד
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated
- (Niphal)
- to be annihilated, be exterminated
- to be destroyed, be devastated
- (Hiphil)
- to annihilate, exterminate
- to destroy
- (Niphal)
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
2848) dms (סהמד ShMD) AC: Destroy CO: ? AB: ?: A complete annihilation or extermination. [from: ms- destruction]
V) dms (סהמד ShMD) - Destroy: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (91): (vf: Niphal, Hiphil) destroy, destruction, overthrow, perish, consume - Strongs: H8045 (שָׁמַד), H8046 (שְׁמַד)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 of person be annihilated, exterminated, Genesis 34:30 (J), Judges 21:16; 2 Samuel 21:5 (+ מֵהִתְיַצֵּב בְּ; — but read לְהַשְׁמִידֵגוּᵐ5 Ew We Dr and others), Psalm 37:38 ("" נִכְדָת), Psalm 83:11; of people Deuteronomy 4:26 (׳הִשָּׁמֵד תּשּׁ), Deuteronomy 7:23; Deuteronomy 12:30(+ מִמָּנֶתךָ Deuteronomy 28:20 ("" אָבַד Deuteronomy 28:24; Deuteronomy 28:45; Deuteronomy 28:51; Deuteronomy 28:61, Jeremiah 48:42 (+מֵעִם. Ezekiel 33:12; Psalm 92:8 (+ עֲדֵיעַֿד, compare also וְלֹא יִשָּׁמֵד שְׁמוֺ מִלְּפָנָי֑ Isaiah 48:19 (+ יִכָרֵת; וַרְעֶ֑ךָ etc., in "" clause).
2 be destroyed, of bamoth, Hosea 10:8, compare (בֵּית רְשָׁעִים) Proverbs 14:11; be devastated, of land, Jeremiah 48:8 ("" אבר).
Hiph`il69 Perfect 3 masculine singular הִשְׁמִיד Deuteronomy 2:22 +, etc.; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יַשְׁמִיד Isaiah 13:9 +, וַיַּשְׁמֵד 1 Kings 16:12; 2 Kings 10:28, etc.; Imperative masculine singular הַשְׁמֵד Deuteronomy 33:27; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁמֵד Isaiah 14:28, יֵ֯ד Amos 9:8; construct לְהַשְׁמִיר Joshua 9:24 +, also עַד הִשְׁמִידְךָ Deuteronomy 7:24, וֺ- Deuteronomy 28:48, ָ֯ ם - Joshua 11:14 (but read in all ׳הַשׁ, as Joshua 23:15, see Dr Deuteronomy 7:24), לַשְׁמִד Isaiah 23:11, etc.; —
1 annihilate, exterminate: accusative of person or a people, subject ׳י or human person, Deuteronomy 1:27; Deuteronomy 2:22 (+ מִמְּנֵי person), Deuteronomy 6:15 (+ מֵעַלמְּֿנֵי הָאֲרָמָה), Deuteronomy 9:20 16t. Deuteronomy; Joshua 7:12 (accusative הַחֵרֶם; + מִקִּרְבְּכֶם), Joshua 9:24 4t. Joshua (all R D), 2 Kings 14:16; 1 Kings 13:34; Amos 9:8; Isaiah 13:9; Isaiah 26:14; Esther 3:6,13 23t.; accusative מִּרְיוֺ וְשָׁרָשָׁיו (figurative) Amos 2:9, compare Ezekiel 34:16 (but Vrss Co Toy and others [not Hi Krae] אֶשְׁמֹר); אֶתשְֿׁמִי׳הִשׁ 1 Samuel 24:22 (Gi v. 1 Samuel 24:21), 2 Samuel 22:38; 1 Kings 16:12; Psalm 145:20; הַשְׁמֵד as substantive, Isaiah 14:23 besom of extermination; accusative אֶתהַֿבַּעַל 2 Kings 10:28, of extirpating Baal-worship מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל.
2 destroy, cities Micah 5:13, fortresses Isaiah 23:11, bamoth Leviticus 26:30 (H), Numbers 33:52 (P; "" אִבֵּד), חֹזֶק מַמְלְכוֺת הַגּוֺיִם Haggai 2:22.
שָׁמַד not used in Kal (kindred to שָׁמַם).
Hiphil הִשְׁמִיד to destroy
(a) to lay waste cities, altars, Leviticus 26:30; Numbers 33:52. More frequently
(b) to destroy persons and peoples, Deuteronomy 1:27, 2:12, 21, 22, 23 Esther 3:6. Inf. הַשְׁמֵד subst. destruction, Isaiah 14:23.
Niphal, pass.
(1) to be laid waste, as a field, Jeremiah 48:8 hills, Hosea 10:8.
(2) to be destroyed, cut off, of peoples, Deuteronomy 4:26, 28:20 and of individuals, Genesis 34:30; Psalms 37:38.