Strongs Number: H7703
- Hebrew Word
- שָׁדַד
- Transliteration
- shâdad
- Phonetic
- shaw-dad'
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Strongs Definition
-
properly to be {burly} that {is} (figuratively) powerful (passively impregnable); by implication to ravage
- BDB Definition
-
1. to deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin, destroy, spoil
a. (Qal)
1. to violently destroy, devastate, despoil, assail
2. devastator, despoiler (participle) (subst)
b. (Niphal) to be utterly ruined
c. (Piel)
1. to assault
2. to devastate
d. (Pual) to be devastated
e. (Poel) to violently destroy
f. (Hophal) to be devastated
- Origin
- A primitive root
- Bible Usage
- {dead} destroy ({-er}) {oppress} {robber} spoil ({-er}) X-(idiom) {utterly} (lay) waste.