Strong's Hebrew · H7703
H7703 shâdad
שָׁדַד
shaw-dad'
to ruin
shâdad appears 57 times in Scripture, including Judges 5:27 and Job 12:6. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
In the King James Version
dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), × utterly, (lay) waste.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 57 times in Scripture
“The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.”
“O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.”
“from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.”
“Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.”
“The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.”
“He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.”
“At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.”
“Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.”
“Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.”
“A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
