Strong H7703שָׁדַד

to ruin

Transliteration
shâdad
Pronunciation
shaw-dad'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; properly to be {burly} that {is} (figuratively) powerful (passively impregnable); by implication to ravage: - {dead} destroy ({-er}) {oppress} {robber} spoil ({-er}) X {utterly} (lay) waste.

Detailed definition

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)

In the Bible

Strong H7703 appears in 47 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • spoil23
  • spoiler11
  • waste5
  • destroy2
  • robber2
  • be1
  • dead1
  • destroyer1
  • oppress1
  • spoileth1
  • thee1
  • wasteth1

First verses

  1. Judges 5:27
    At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
  2. Job 12:6
    The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
  3. Job 15:21
    A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
  4. Psalms 17:9
    From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
  5. Psalms 137:8
    O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
  6. Proverbs 11:3
    The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
  7. Proverbs 19:26
    He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
  8. Proverbs 24:15
    Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
  9. Isaiah 15:1
    The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
  10. Isaiah 16:4
    Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
  11. Isaiah 21:2
    A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
  12. Isaiah 23:1
    The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
  13. Isaiah 23:14
    Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
  14. Isaiah 33:1
    Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
  15. Jeremiah 4:13
    Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
  16. Jeremiah 4:20
    Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
  17. Jeremiah 4:30
    And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
  18. Jeremiah 5:6
    Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
  19. Jeremiah 6:26
    O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
  20. Jeremiah 9:19
    For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
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