שָׁחַת H7843

Home gloss: ruin
Instead of (KJV / RSV): corrupt / destroy
Note: One gloss for the whole chain: the land and flesh ruined (6:11–12), Elohim ruining (6:13, 17), the promise (9:11, 15). See the note at 6:11
Rulings: 2, 37

Occurrences (8)

6:11 And the land was ruined before the face of the elohim, and the land was filled with violence.
6:12 And Elohim saw the land, and look, it was ruined, for all flesh had ruined its way on the land.
6:12 And Elohim saw the land, and look, it was ruined, for all flesh had ruined its way on the land.
6:13 And Elohim said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before my face, for the land is filled with violence from their faces; and look, I am ruining them with the land.
6:17 And I, look, I am bringing the flood, waters, on the land, to ruin all flesh in which is a spirit of life from under the skies; everything that is in the land shall expire.

9:11 And I will make stand my covenant with you: and all flesh shall not be cut off again by the waters of the flood, and there shall not be again a flood to ruin the land."
9:15 then I will remember my covenant that is between me and between you and between every living soul in all flesh; and the waters shall not become again a flood to ruin all flesh.

13:10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the circle of the Jordan, that all of it was a watering—before ruined Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of , like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.