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# מַשְׁחֵת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4892

**destruction** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

destruction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4892/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשְׁחֵת: id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4892/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]id.;—כְּלִי מַשְׁחֵתוֹ Ez 9:1.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: his destruction (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 9:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.9.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.9.1/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָ֣א בְאָזְנַ֗י ק֤וֹל גָּדוֹל֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר קָרְב֖וּ פְּקֻדּ֣וֹת הָעִ֑יר וְאִ֛ישׁ כְּלִ֥י מַשְׁחֵת֖וֹ בְּיָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.called.out in ears my a.voice great (cmp) they.have.drawn.near the.punishments of the.city and everyone the.weapon his.destruction his \[is\].in hand his

*JPS 1917:* Then he called in mine ears with a loud voice, saying: 'Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4892/): 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).