Strong's H7843
שָׁחַת
- Transliteration
- shâchath
- Pronunciation
- shaw-khath'
- Definition
- to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
- KJV usage
- batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r).
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.