H4889 - מַשְׁחִית (mashchîyth)

H4889 מַשְׁחִית (mashchîyth) mash-kheeth'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

destruction

Strong's Definition

destructive, i.e. (as noun) destruction, literally (specifically a snare) or figuratively (corruption)

Derivation: from H7843 (שָׁחַת);

KJV Usage: corruption, (to) destroy(-ing), destruction, trap, [idiom] utterly.

TWOT Reference: 2370a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) ruin, destruction

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

ruin, destruction

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַשְׁחִית mashchý̂yth BDB Definition: 1) ruin, destruction Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7843 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2370a Total KJV Occurrences: 10

Bible Occurrences (12)

12:13

23:13

20:23 22:4

18:9

5:26 51:25

5:16 9:6 21:31 25:15

10:8

Exodus 12:13

The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 23:13

The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites....

2 Chronicles 20:23

The Ammonites... and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

2 Chronicles 22:4

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab [had done], for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father.

Proverbs 18:9

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother... to him who destroys.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

Jeremiah 51:25

Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine [and]... destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.