to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַתִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת
shachath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 147 · 4.79/10k
Senses
Attestations
- וַ/תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת Genesis 6:11 (BHS)
- נִשְׁחָ֑תָה Genesis 6:12 (BHS)
- הִשְׁחִ֧ית Genesis 6:12 (BHS)
- מַשְׁחִיתָ֖/ם Genesis 6:13 (BHS)
- לְ/שַׁחֵ֣ת Genesis 6:17 (BHS)
- לְ/שַׁחֵ֥ת Genesis 9:11 (BHS)
6 of 147 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.