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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)
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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.