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# מַשְׁחִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4889

**ruin** — used 20 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ruin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4889/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשְׁחִית²: ruin, destruction Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4889/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ruin, destruction;—מ׳ abs. Je 5:26 + 10 times;—physical destruction Ez 5:16; 9:6; 21:36; 25:15; Ex 12:13 (P), 2 Ch 20:23; 22:4; בַּעַל מ׳ Pr 18:9 = destroyers; Dn 10:8 (disfigurement); הַר־מ׳ Je 51:25 (fig. of Bab. as destroyer), in 2 K 23:13 = mt. of corruption (where bamoth were, S. end of Mt. of Olives, poss. adapted from הַר־מִשְׁחָה so HoffmZAW ii (1882), 175 Benz Kit Bur; 𝔙 mons offensionis).—v. \[שָׁחַת\] Hiph. 1. Pt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: destruction (9); a destroyer (3); destroyer (3).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 18:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.9/#tree)

גַּ֭ם מִתְרַפֶּ֣ה בִמְלַאכְתּ֑וֹ אָ֥ח ה֝֗וּא לְבַ֣עַל מַשְׁחִֽית׃

*Word for word:* also \[one.who\].shows.himself.idle in work his \[is\].a.brother he to a.master of.destruction

*JPS 1917:* Even one that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.

[Jeremiah 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.26/#tree)

כִּי־נִמְצְא֥וּ בְעַמִּ֖י רְשָׁעִ֑ים יָשׁוּר֙ כְּשַׁ֣ךְ יְקוּשִׁ֔ים הִצִּ֥יבוּ מַשְׁחִ֖ית אֲנָשִׁ֥ים יִלְכֹּֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.are.found among people my wicked.\[people\] he.watches as bend fowlers they.set a.destroyer people they.catch

*JPS 1917:* For among My people are found wicked men; they pry, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4889.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4889/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).