Strong's Hebrew · H7703

H7703 shâdad

שָׁדַד

shaw-dad'

dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), [idiom] utterly, (lay) waste.

When shâdad is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 57 times in Scripture

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

Psalms 137:8

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

Psalms 17:9

from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

Proverbs 24:15

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.

Proverbs 19:26

He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

Judges 5:27

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.

Jeremiah 48:15

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.

Job 15:21

Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

Isaiah 21:2

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.”

When shâdad is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what shâdad means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Job 12:6 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

How weighing a word works

Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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