Quick Definition
to destroy
Strong's Definition
to extirpate (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: consume, cut off, destroy, vanish.
TWOT Reference: 1932
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
צָמַת (tsa.mat) — to destroy. 1) to put an end to, cut off, destroy, exterminate, extirpate 1a) (Qal) to put an end to, terminate 1b) (Niphal) to be ended, be annihilated, be exterminated 1c) (Piel) to put an end to 1d) (Pilel) to be exterminated, be annihilated 1e) (Hiphil) to exterminate, annihilate
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · צְמִיתֻת
Non-Exist | verb nif
to vanish, to disappear = process by which liquids disappear from existence, as a result of warm weather
Non-Exist | verb nif
to be destroyed, to be silenced, to be consumed = process by which humans are removed from existence ◄ by (a usually unnatural) death, aggression, sickness, strong emotions, or (possibly) direct divine intervention
Non-Exist | verb hif, verb pi | ≈ אבד · כרת
to destroy, to wipe out, to annihilate, to silence, to consume = causative action by which humans, deities, or events remove (other) humans from existence; ◄ by (a usually unnatural) death, aggression, sickness, strong emotions, or (possibly) direct divine intervention; ► often as punishment
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Dead | verb qal
Collocation: צמת חַי
to destroy (someone's life) > to kill literally: to destroy someone's life; hence: = causative action by which humans cause other humans to die an unnatural death
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[צָמַת] vb. put an end to, exterminate Qal they have put an end to my life
Niph. be ended, annihilated
Pi. hath put an end to me
Pi‛lēl thine alarms have annihilated me
Hiph. exterminate, annihilate
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