שֹׁד
shôd · shode
violence, ravage
Lexicon
Derivation: or שׁוֹד; (Job 5:21), from H7736 (שׁוּד);
violence, ravage
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: desolation, destruction, oppression, robbery, spoil(-ed, -er, -ing), wasting.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the doorway, the way in
To consume, to destroy of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֹׁד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
25 occurrences · 25 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and spoil3 · 12%
- wasting2 · 8%
- of destruction1 · 4%
- at destruction1 · 4%
- for the oppression1 · 4%
- the robbery1 · 4%
- destruction1 · 4%
- as a destruction1 · 4%
- the spoiler1 · 4%
- me, because of the spoiling1 · 4%
- for thee? desolation1 · 4%
- spoiling1 · 4%
- from me: destruction1 · 4%
- because of destruction1 · 4%
- spoiled1 · 4%
- and desolation1 · 4%
- and as a destruction1 · 4%
- and robbery1 · 4%
- the spoiled1 · 4%
- so that the spoiled1 · 4%
- for spoiling1 · 4%
- thee, and the spoil1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.