שָׁדַד
shâdad · shaw-dad'
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
- properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable)
- by implication, to ravage
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), [idiom] utterly, (lay) waste.
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
- 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 › the doorway, the way in
To consume, to destroy of the doorway, the way in of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁדַד 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
57 occurrences · 57 OT · 0 NT · 47 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- is spoiled8 · 19%
- is laid waste4 · 10%
- shall destroy2 · 5%
- and the spoiler2 · 5%
- to spoil2 · 5%
- spoiled2 · 5%
- for the spoiler2 · 5%
- hath spoiled2 · 5%
- is wasted2 · 5%
- dead1 · 2%
- of robbers1 · 2%
- the destroyer1 · 2%
- oppress1 · 2%
- who art to be destroyed1 · 2%
- he that wasteth1 · 2%
- spoil1 · 2%
- of the spoiler1 · 2%
- spoileth1 · 2%
- for it is laid waste1 · 2%
- to thee that spoilest1 · 2%
- and thou wast not spoiled1 · 2%
- thou shalt be spoiled1 · 2%
- unto us! for we are spoiled1 · 2%
- and when thou art spoiled1 · 2%
- shall spoil1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
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.