שָׁמַד
shâmad · shaw-mad'
to desolate
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to desolate
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, [idiom] utterly.
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
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- 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 › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the doorway, the way in
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁמַד 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
90 occurrences · 90 OT · 0 NT · 85 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to destroy8 · 16%
- destroyed5 · 10%
- shall be destroyed4 · 8%
- and i will destroy3 · 6%
- destroy3 · 6%
- upon thee, until thou be destroyed2 · 4%
- and destroyed2 · 4%
- until thou be destroyed2 · 4%
- and to destroy2 · 4%
- until he have destroyed2 · 4%
- and destroy2 · 4%
- them, when they had destroyed1 · 2%
- that i may destroy1 · 2%
- when he destroyed1 · 2%
- with you to have destroyed1 · 2%
- and quite pluck down1 · 2%
- thee, until thou have destroyed1 · 2%
- until they be destroyed1 · 2%
- against you, and destroy1 · 2%
- against thee, and destroy1 · 2%
- be destroyed1 · 2%
- he shall destroy1 · 2%
- upon it, but shall utterly1 · 2%
- hath destroyed1 · 2%
- and i shall be destroyed1 · 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.