# שָׁמַד (shamad) Israeli respelling: sha-mad. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H8045. 86 Old Testament occurrences. to desolate King James renderings: destory(-uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, [idiom] utterly. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shamad-h8045 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 34:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/30) — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the… - [Leviticus 26:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/30) — And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall ab… - [Numbers 33:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/52) — Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten image… - [Deuteronomy 1:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/27) — And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into t… - [Deuteronomy 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/12) — The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt… - [Deuteronomy 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/21) — A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their st… - [Deuteronomy 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/22) — As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt i… - [Deuteronomy 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/23) — And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their… - [Deuteronomy 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/3) — Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them fro… - [Deuteronomy 4:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/26) — I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to… - [Deuteronomy 6:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/15) — (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the… - [Deuteronomy 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/4) — For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, an… - [Deuteronomy 7:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/23) — But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. - [Deuteronomy 7:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/24) — And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand… - [Deuteronomy 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/3) — Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he… - [Deuteronomy 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/8) — Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. - [Deuteronomy 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/14) — Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater tha… - [Deuteronomy 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/19) — For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me… - [Deuteronomy 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/20) — And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. - [Deuteronomy 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/25) — Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. - [Deuteronomy 12:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/30) — Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not af… - [Deuteronomy 28:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/20) — The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, a… - [Deuteronomy 28:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/24) — The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. - [Deuteronomy 28:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/45) — Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst… - [Deuteronomy 28:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/48) — Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of… - [Deuteronomy 28:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/51) — And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn,… - [Deuteronomy 28:61](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/61) — Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be dest… - [Deuteronomy 28:63](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/63) — And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to des… - [Deuteronomy 31:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/3) — The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua,… - [Deuteronomy 31:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/4) — And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. - [Deuteronomy 33:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/27) — The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say,… - [Joshua 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/12) — Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accur… - [Joshua 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/24) — And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to gi… - [Joshua 11:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/14) — And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with th… - [Joshua 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/20) — For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that… - [Joshua 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/23/15) — Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring u… - [Joshua 24:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/8) — And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your… - [Judges 21:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/16) — Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? - [1 Samuel 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/21) — Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my fath… - [2 Samuel 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/7) — And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for… - [2 Samuel 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/11) — Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any mor… - [2 Samuel 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/16) — For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance… - [2 Samuel 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/5) — And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the… - [2 Samuel 22:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/38) — I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them. - [1 Kings 13:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/34) — And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth. - [1 Kings 15:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/15/29) — And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had dest… - [1 Kings 16:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/12) — Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, - [2 Kings 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/17) — And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD… - [2 Kings 10:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/28) — Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. - [2 Kings 21:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/9) — But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israe… - [1 Chronicles 5:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/25) — And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed bef… - [2 Chronicles 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/10) — And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of… - [2 Chronicles 20:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/23) — For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made… - [2 Chronicles 33:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/9) — So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the ch… - [Esther 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/6) — And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all… - [Esther 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/13) — And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old… - [Esther 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/4/8) — Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it… - [Esther 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/7/4) — For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had hel… - [Esther 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/11) — Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay,… - [Psalms 37:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/38) — But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. - [Psalms 83:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/83/10) — Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. - [Psalms 92:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/7) — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: - [Psalms 106:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/23) — Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he shou… - [Psalms 106:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/34) — They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: - [Psalms 145:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/145/20) — The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. - [Proverbs 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/11) — The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. - [Isaiah 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/7) — Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. - [Isaiah 13:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/9) — Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners ther… - [Isaiah 14:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/23) — I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of… - [Isaiah 23:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/11) — He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the… - [Isaiah 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/14) — They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all th… - [Isaiah 48:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/19) — Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor dest… - [Jeremiah 48:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/8) — And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as th… - [Jeremiah 48:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/42) — And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD. - [Lamentations 3:66](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/66) — Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. - [Ezekiel 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/9) — And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him,… - [Ezekiel 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/7) — Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from th… - [Ezekiel 32:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/12) — By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of… - [Ezekiel 34:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/16) — I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen th… - [Daniel 11:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/44) — But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to… - [Hosea 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/8) — The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shal… - [Amos 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/2/9) — Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his… - [Amos 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/8) — Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not… - [Micah 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/14) — And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. - [Haggai 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/2/22) — And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chari… - [Zechariah 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/12/9) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.