Quick Definition
to ruin
Strong's Definition
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), [idiom] utterly, (lay) waste.
TWOT Reference: 2331
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
שָׁדַד (sha.dad) — to ruin. 1) to deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin, destroy, spoil 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to violently destroy, devastate, despoil, assail 1a2) devastator, despoiler (participle) (subst) 1b) (Niphal) to be utterly ruined 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to assault 1c2) to devastate 1d) (Pual) to be devastated 1e) (Poel) to violently destroy 1f) (Hophal) to be devastated Also means: shud (שׁוּד "to waste" H7736)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · שֹׁד
Impact | Dead | Possess | Unsafe | verb qal | ≈ ערף
to ravage, to devastate, to lay waste, to plunder = action by which humans or wild animals attack other humans and kill, destroy and steal in the process
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1 PRO 11:3 MT-K שׁדם | MT-Q יְשָׁדֵּם
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁדַד] 56 vb. deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin Qal violently destroy, pers. = slay
Niph. we are utterly ruined.
Pi. assault not his dwelling-place
Pu. be devastated
Pō‛el violently destroy
Hoph. be devastated
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